Jerome Hill
Jerome Hill (March 2, 1905 – November 21, 1972) was an American filmmaker and artist. He was educated at Yale, where he drew covers, caricatures and cartoons for campus humor magazine The Yale Record. His 1950 documentary Grandma Moses, written and narrated by Archibald MacLeish, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Two-reel. He won the 1957 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for his film Albert Schweitzer. In addition to making films, he was a painter and composer. His last film, the autobiographical Film Portrait (1973), was added to the National Film Registry in 2003. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jerome Hill, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
as SelfAn epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.
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365 Day Project
as uncreditedThis exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in...
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Birth of a Nation
as SelfFilmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
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Hallelujah the Hills
as Convict IJack and Leo vie for the affections of Vera – who appears a little differently to each man –...
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Galaxie
as HimselfIn March and April of 1966, Markopoulos created this filmic portrait of writers and artists from...
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Film Portrait
as HimselfThe life of Jerome Hill corresponded with the first formative decades of cinema and a greater...
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Notes for Jerome
as SelfDuring the summer of 1966 Jonas Mekas spent two months in Cassis, as a guest of Jerome Hill....
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Cassis
as Narrator / JeromeAn "autobiographical sketch" centered around small group of vacationers to Hill's estate in...
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