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Storm de Hirsch

Storm de Hirsch (1912–2000) was an American poet and filmmaker. She was a key figure in the New York avant-garde film scene of the 1960s, and one of the founding members of the Film-Makers' Cooperative. Although often overlooked by historians, in recent years she has been recognized as a pioneer of underground cinema.

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Xcèntric: Storm de Hirsch - Poems and songs

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 21/01/2020 - 06:57

Storm de Hirsch—poet, painter, a woman pioneer among pioneers of the cinema—invented some of the basic forms of Super 8. However, few of her films have been screened since her death. This session combines her songs and sonnets in Super 8 with her Hudson River diaries, filmed in 16 mm.
Dates:
Thursday, January 23, 2020 - 19:30
Venue:
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona - Barcelona, Spain
Sisters of the Extreme

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 06/01/2020 - 13:45

Avant-garde filmmakers have long explored the potential of cinema to afford a visionary experience, exploring the affinities of film with trance, ritual, dream and memory, testing the play of light on the depths of the subconscious. Curators Kathryn Siegel and Sophia Satchell-Baeza’s programme Sisters of the Extreme brings together a series of films by women from the 1960s to the present day, concentrating on work that shares an occult sensibility and a concern with film’s potential to render heightened mental states, from the meditative to the ecstatic.
Dates:
Thursday, January 23, 2020 - 18:00
Venue:
Tyneside Cinema - Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Selected Experimental and Animated Works from the Women’s Film Preservation Fund

By Ann on Tue, 18/06/2019 - 02:05

Since 1996 the Women’s Film Preservation Fund has preserved a number of significant experimental and animated works by American women, many of which reflect pioneering approaches and unique voices. These include works by Storm de Hirsch, Barbara Hammer, Peggy Ahwesh, Bette Gordon, and Helen Hill among others.
Dates:
Friday, June 21, 2019 (All day) to Saturday, June 22, 2019 (All day)
Venue:
Anthology Film Archives - New York, United States
The New American Cinema Group
Antología de textos de Film Culture (1959-1968)
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Books
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Shangrila Textos Aparte
Mythology for the Soul: The Collected Poems of Storm De Hirsch
Storm De Hirsch began publishing poetry and art criticism in American little magazines in the 1950s. Her work arrived in the vacuum of American postwar poetry and with no clear affiliation. It was on the periphery of the east coast Beat movement, engaging punctuative declarations, onomatopoeia, chorus repetitions and sensual, ornithological and Cabalistic imagery. De Hirsch’s poems are shamanistic, bearing properties of the magic ritual and incantation, and her mysticism as well as her passions for new forms led her in the visionary direction of the New American Cinema.
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Summer of Love Experiments: Perceptual Expansion

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 10/07/2017 - 04:29

The Summer of Love. Los Angeles Filmforum commemorates the 50th anniversary of the radical cultural upheaval with an assortment of mind-blowing (as intended) short underground films. These films used a variety of tactics to manifest or assist with perceptual expansion and experience found in sex, drugs, music, and art. Some pursue idea of psychedelia (Third Eye Butterfly; Doppler Effect: Version II) others express openness in sexuality (Fuses); and others try to capture some of the spirit of group revelry, drug-taking and celebration (Letter to D.H.
Dates:
Sunday, July 16, 2017 - 19:30
Venue:
Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian - Los Angeles, United States
Close-Up: Storm De Hirsch - Goodbye In The Mirror

By Marcos Ortega on Thu, 01/09/2016 - 03:13

First of their new strand of screenings at Close-Up, and programmed by Arindam Sen, Rattis Books presents Storm De Hirsch's rarely screened Goodbye in the Mirror on a beautiful 16mm print, "A dramatic feature shot on location in Rome. Centred around the adventures and illusions of three girls living abroad, the film explores their restlessness and personal involvements in assuming the role of woman as hunter".
Dates:
Friday, September 16, 2016 - 20:00
Venue:
Close-Up Cinema - London, United Kingdom
Storm De Hirsch: "Third Eye Butterfly" and other films

By Anonymous on Sun, 12/06/2016 - 17:13

“I don't want to put any labels on my films… I never impose on you; you need to find what you have to find.” – Storm De Hirsch

Microscope Gallery is extremely pleased to present a rare screening of three films by seminal artist Storm de Hirsch, filmmaker, poet, painter, and a co-founder of The Film-maker's Cooperative in New York in 1961. Despite her extensive presence and influence in the avant-garde film scene of New York in the 1960s, De Hirsch's work and history has largely remained obscure, especially since her death in 2000. De Hirsch's pioneering films often involve direct scratching, coloring, etching, painting on film and animation applied to imagery shot in everyday life.

Dates:
Sunday, June 19, 2016 - 19:30
Venue:
Microscope Gallery - Brooklyn, United States
A Mirror Avant-Garde: Non-Canonical Canonicals By Women Filmmakers

By Marcos Ortega on Thu, 25/06/2015 - 16:35

"If you’ve seen more than three of the films in this program, I’d be surprised. Yet every single one of these films by women filmmakers, chosen from the collection of the Filmmaker’s Co-op, deserves to be written about, taught in classes, and be part of the canon of avant-garde film. In a program of striking artistic voices from filmmakers with large bodies of work, you’ll see resonances with the films of Jack Smith, Carolee Schneeman, Stan Brakhage, Len Lye, Owen Land, Hollis Frampton, Barbara Rubin, Malcolm LeGrice, and many others."

Dates:
Wednesday, July 1, 2015 - 19:00
Venue:
Filmmakers Co-op - New York, United States
What is Cinema?
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Chuck Workman's documentary What Is Cinema? tackles the question of its title through over 100 clips and new interviews with Mike Leigh, Jonas Mekas, Yvonne Rainer, David Lynch, video artist Bill Viola, Robert Altman, Kelly Reichardt, Costa-Gavras, Ken Jacobs, Michael Moore, critic J. Hoberman, and others, and with archival interviews from Robert Bresson, Alfred Hitchcock, Chantal Akerman, Akira Kurosawa, Abbas Kiarostami, and more. The film also includes commissioned sequences from experimental artists Lewis Klahr and Phil Solomon. What Is Cinema?
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Publisher:
Cohen Media Group