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UCLA Film & Television Archive, the the Hugh M. Hefner Classic American Film Program, and Los Angeles Filmforum present Enlightening Vision: Recent Films by Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler November 30 Dec 2, 2018 At the UCLA Film & Television Archive, Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024 In-person: filmmakers Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler. Los Angeles Filmforum members receive free admission at the box office! https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/2018/enlightening-vision-nathaniel-dorsky -jerome-hiler In every generation there is a small number of artists whose clarity of voice and individual vision inspires a renewed passion for their medium, even as they deepen our appreciation for all art. Filmmakers Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler are two such artists. Internationally celebrated for their bodies of work spanning over fifty years, Dorsky and Hiler will make rare appearances with three programs of recent films. Working with hand-held and hand-wound 16mm cameras, each creates a cinema of exquisite beauty that unfolds in time and retains the mystery and ambiguities of life lived rather than illustrated. Dorsky and Hiler have been creative collaborators and partners since meeting during the halcyon days of New York¹s 1960s underground film scene. Dorsky, a renowned cinematographer, editor and author, has produced nearly fifty films since 1964. Each includes hundreds of images recorded in differing locales that reveal astonishing interplays of texture, movement and space. Hiler, whose practice includes painting and stained glass, creates images unsurpassed in their delicacy and subtlety of expression. Often choosing pastoral settings, his subjects emerge in inexplicable ways through multiple layering, adding filters and hand manipulating the actual film material. Hiler creates film spaces that are ethereal and dark-hued plays with edges of perception. Theirs are films that invite us in but don¹t make it obvious how to look and respond: they are streams of interconnected records and reflections of the visual world, transforming recognizable objects and places into realms of seemingly infinite and unexpected discovery. We are being returned, as though it was being discovered for the first time, to the essential magic of cinema. The Archive is honored to present this series with Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler in person. Programs organized by Steve Anker and curated by the filmmakers. ³For Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler, Film Is the Star² By Manohla Dargis, The New York Times, Sept. 24, 2015 https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/27/movies/for-nathaniel-dorsky-and-jerome-hi ler-film-is-the-star.html ----------------------- Friday, November 30, 2018, 7:30 pm: THREE FILMS BY JEROME HILER "My films bear a stronger relation to music than to the usual concept of a motion picture. As in music, their story is an elusive thing that co-joins with the intimate associations of the viewer. They are silent which gives the mind of the viewer the freedom to be aware of its own presence, as well. My images simply unfold according to their needs. As with so many independent, hand-made films, these works exist in some in-between space of the media universe". (J.H.) WORDS OF MERCURY (2011, 25 min., 16mm, silent) BAGATELLE II (2016, 16 min., 16mm, silent) MARGINALIA (2016, 23 min., 16mm, silent) Total running time: 64 minutes. Tickets: Advance sale price: $10.00 at http://emarket.cinema.ucla.edu/ShoppingCenter/Details.aspx?ref=1035 Tickets for Archive events may also be purchased at the box office: General admission: $9.00; Seniors: $8.00; UCLA Alumni Association Members: $8.00 Non-UCLA students: $8.00; Filmforum members, UCLA students: Free (see policy <https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/programs/ticket-info> ) For more information: https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/2018/11/30/three-films-jerome-hiler <https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/2018/11/30/three-films-jerome-hiler> www.lafilmforum.org <http://www.lafilmforum.org> or 323-377-7238. Saturday, December 1, 2018, 7:30 pm: Four Films by Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 7:30PM FOUR FILMS BY NATHANIEL DORSKY & JEROME HILER Although Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler have shared the same world and have many of the same interests and occupations, their films express the inner spirit of two distinct individuals. There are similarities, but these recede in significance as one experiences the unique mind of either filmmaker. FILMS BY JEROME HILER ³Given all the layers involved, there are some rules to follow that must govern all the material. One has to regard black or darkness as if it were gold itself. The dark characteristics are what enable the layers to come through and blend with one another.² (J.H.) NEW WORK-IN-PROGRESS (2017-18, ca. 17 min., 16mm, silent) ³My new, as yet unnamed work, is generated from the California landscape - seemingly congenial yet ever elusive and remote.² (J.H.) BAGATELLE I (2016-18, ca. 16 min., 16mm, silent) ³Bagatelle I swims in a fast current below and above glimpses of experience that shift from the familiar to the unknown.² (J.H.) FILMS BY NATHANIEL DORSKY ³I put shots together to create a revelation of wisdom through delicate surprise. The montage does not lead to verbal understanding, but is actual and present.² (N.D.) AUTUMN (2016, 26 min., 16mm, silent) Autumn, photographed during the last months of the drought year, 2015, is a stately, but intimate, seasonal tome, a celebration of the poignancy and mystery of our later years. ND COLOPHON (for the Arboretum Cycle) (2018, 13.5 min., 16mm, silent) Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle) has three sections. It is in the spirit of the early Chinese landscape colophons, a text added to the horizontal scroll at a later date from when the landscape itself was enacted. Colophon was not made to be shown along with the Arboretum Cycle, but a new thing, a spring later, a different maker, so to speak. N.D. Total running time: 72.5 minutes. Tickets: Advance sale price: $10.00 at http://emarket.cinema.ucla.edu/ShoppingCenter/Details.aspx?ref=1034 Tickets for Archive events may also be purchased at the box office: General admission: $9.00; Seniors: $8.00; UCLA Alumni Association Members: $8.00 Non-UCLA students: $8.00; Filmforum members, UCLA students: Free (see policy <https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/programs/ticket-info> ) For more information: https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/2018/12/01/four-films-nathaniel-dorsky-je rome-hiler <https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/2018/12/01/four-films-nathaniel-dorsky-j erome-hiler> , www.lafilmforum.org <http://www.lafilmforum.org> or 323-377-7238. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 7:00PM NATHANIEL DORSKY: ARBORETUM CYCLE ³The Arboretum Cycle was shot over a twelve month period beginning in the early spring of February and ending in the month of December. It was entirely photographed in the Strybing Arboretum in Golden Gate Park.² (N.D.) ELOHIM (2017, 31 min, 16mm, silent) Elohim, or divine beings, the energy of light as creation. N.D. ABATON (2017, 19 min, 16mm, silent) Abaton, a sacred place, a sanctuary for dreaming and healing. N.D. CODA (2017, 16 min, 16mm, silent) Coda is an afterword to Elohim and Abaton, the first shades of death and knowing. N.D. ODE (2017, 20 min, 16mm, silent) Ode is the fourth section of the cycle. There is now the presence of death and dying as the dry summer begins. N.D. SEPTEMBER (2017, 20 min, 16mm, silent) September¹s ripeness, a blessing on earth, our Indian summer N.D. MONODY (2017, 16 min, 16mm, silent) A monody is an ode sung by a single actor in a Greek tragedy, a poem lamenting a person¹s death. In this case, the sixth section of this Arboretum Cycle, the death of the garden itself. N.D. EPILOGUE (2017, 15 min, 16mm, silent) Epilogue is the seventh film in the Arboretum Cycle, a descent into the dark damp earth, a period of dying. N.D. Total running time: 137 min. Tickets: Advance sale price: $10.00 at http://emarket.cinema.ucla.edu/ShoppingCenter/Details.aspx?ref=1033 Tickets for Archive events may also be purchased at the box office: General admission: $9.00; Seniors: $8.00; UCLA Alumni Association Members: $8.00 Non-UCLA students: $8.00; Filmforum members, UCLA students: Free (see policy <https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/programs/ticket-info> ) For more information: https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/2018/12/02/nathaniel-dorsky-arboretum-cyc le , www.lafilmforum.org <http://www.lafilmforum.org> or 323-377-7238. ---------------- This program is supported by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission and the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles. We also depend on our members, ticket buyers, and individual donors. 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