presented in association with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
[members: $7 / non-members: $10]

 

In celebration of Cinematheque’s blessed relationship with screening host SFMOMA, on the eve of the venue’s temporary closure (for purposes of expansion), we are proud to present this tandem screening of works by renowned filmmakers and life partners Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler. Acknowledged as a contemporary master of color and montage, Dorsky’s works breathe with the flows of the luminous world’s mysterious life and suggest a spiritual reality just at the threshold of perception. His August and After (2012)—a silent contemplation of the last days of friends George Kuchar and Carla Liss—describes the tender grace of the world in resonance with grief. Equally evocative if lesser known, the films of Jerome Hiler are very seldom screened in public but have privately been hugely influential on the works of Dorsky as well as filmmakers Stan Brakhage, Warren Sonbert and others. Himself an accomplished stained-glass artist, Hiler’s Words of Mercury (2011) abounds with elaborate in-camera super-impositions and an uncanny sensitivity to the moment-by-moment vicissitudes of light. In addition to these two films, each artist will present the world premiere of a new film at this screening. (Steve Polta)