Storm De Hirsch Movies

"The shape of change, the shape of memory has walked many miles in the mind to recreate a landscape, a manner of subterranean speech which may never...

"I wanted badly to make an animated short and had no camera available. I did have some old, unused film stock and several roles of 16mm sound tape....

Zero are the violated, zero the redeemed, zero always in the round, molested by computation of an ache, a threat of hangman's thread or ballad...

"Reflections on a haunted cove along the banks of the Hudson River." –S.D.H.

This Blakean cinematic catalog of closely framed images, often representing oppositional properties such as growth and decay, or nature versus...

Film 5 of 6 in the Cine-Songs Program.

"Homage to the life and works of Kasimir Malevich" — S.D.H. Film 4 of 6 in the Cine-Songs Program.

“Third Eye Butterfly” is a double 16mm projection piece in which the two screens – at times divided within into additional...

"A day stands still and can be seen sprouting from its socket, a long toothed day eats its quiet bread and stands as still as ears of corn drying in...

Film 1 of 6 in the Cine-Songs Program.

Six films in one reel: The Reticule of Love; The Recurring Dream; Aristotle; Malevitch at the Guggenheim; Silently, Bearing Totem of a Bird; Ives...

"Metaphysical sketches of my stay at the Neil Ives house in Woodstock where the artist lived and painted" — S.D.H. Film 6 of 6 in the...

Children of the water world drift the ocean in an empty crystal ball, swim in beaded beds of mist, and spawn in pools of murder to see a lantern sunk...

"In Spring, 1963 Show Magazine called me and asked that I make a film on arts in New York. I told them, why did they want me to make it - didn't they...

Film 2 of 6 in the Cine-Songs Program.

Two nuns take a bath, then meet a sailor on the Staten Island Ferry.