Calling all romantics, stoners, and formalists! We’re showing a split program dedicated to Dorsky and Hiler, two legends of avant-garde cinema known for their meticulously constructed works of abstract beauty. As partners for more than six decades, they have exerted a profound influence on one another, and so it’s no surprise that they share a number of artistic sensibilities (“polyvalent” theories of montage; sensitivity to the effects of changing seasons; a reverential approach wherein “film itself” might take on “the spirit or experience of religion”). But viewing their films together also elucidates that which makes them distinct as individual artists, from varying formal techniques to particular compositional patterns and visual motifs. This program’s films include footage captured across many decades, going as far back as the ‘60s –– the early days of their romance, living together in a rural cabin dubbed “The Stone House” –– and extending all the way up into the 21st century. Please join us at the Sunnyside Chapel for a post-Valentine’s Day celebration of these filmmakers and lovers.
Sunday, February 15th
Sunnyside Community Center (Chapel)
3520 SE Yamhill St., Portland, OR
Doors 6:30pm / Films 7:00pm
$10-$20 sliding scale
Program:
- Words Of Mercury (2011), dir. Jerome Hiler
- In The Stone House (2012), dir. Jerome Hiler
- Triste (1996), dir. Nathaniel Dorsky
- Winter (2008), dir. Nathaniel Dorsky
