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
Sunday, December 2, 2018, 7:00 pm:
Nathaniel Dorsky: Arboretum Cycle
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!
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 York’s 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 don’t 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.
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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 7:00PM
NATHANIEL DORSKY: ARBORETUM CYCLE
“The 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.” (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)
September’s 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 person’s 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.
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