Storm de Hirsch
Birth:
1922 (not verified)
Death:
2000
Official Website:
None
Major Works:
Geometrics of the Kabbalah (1975)
Lace of Summer (1973)
River-Ghost. Hudson River Diary Book: IV (1973)
Wintergarden. Hudson River Diary Book: III (1973)
September Express (1973)
An Experiment in Meditation (1971)
The Tattooed Man (1969)
Trap Dance (1968)
Third Eye Butterfly (1968)
Cayuga Run. Hudson River Diary: Book I (1967)
Shaman, a Tapestry for Sorcerers (1967)
Sing Lotus (1966)
Peyote Queen (1965)
Aristotle (1965)
Deep in the Mirror Imbedded (1965)
Charlotte Moorman’s Avant-Garde Festival #9 (1965)
Malevich at the Guggenheim (1965)
Ives House-Woodstock (1965)
The Recurring Dream (1965)
Divinations (1964)
Newsreel: Jonas in the Brig (1964)
The Color of Ritual, the Color of Thought (1964-1967)
Goodbye in the Mirror (1964)
Journey Around a Zero (1963)
A Reticule of Love (1963)
Years Working:
1964 — 1965
Notes:
Was a poet before she became a filmmaker. Some of her published books of poetry are Alleh Lulleh Cockatoo and Twilight Massacre.
In 2000, her 1964 film Divinations was the recipient of the New York Women in Film & Television‘s Women’s Film Preservation Fund. The grant was awarded to the Anthology Film Archives.
The birth date listed above was taken from the Treasures IV: American Avant-Garde Film, 1947-1986 DVD liner notes. However, they question their own year and neither further verification nor non-verification can be found at this time.
Online Resources:
IMDB: Filmography
Wikipedia: Bio
Film-makers’ Cooperative: Complete filmography for rental
Canyon Cinema: Partial filmography for rental
Film Books About Storm de Hirsch:
An Introduction to the American Underground Film by Sheldon Renan (E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York, 1967) (Published simultaneously in Canada by Clarke, Irwin and Company, Limited, Toronto and Vancouver) (p. 32, 102.)
Video:
None
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[...] perusing the 1960 — 1969 page of the Timeline and come across the name of filmmaker Storm de Hirsch, who in 1965 made her most famous film Peyote [...]
[...] Storm de Hirsch (1922-2000) estuvo muy presente en la escena del cine de vanguardia neoyorkino en los sesenta, relacionándose con gente como Stan Brakhage, Jonas Mekas o Shirley Clarke, aunque sea un personaje bastante desconocido. Al igual que muchos cineastas experimentales de la época, no comienza su carrera artística haciendo películas. Durante años fue poeta, y es al encontrándose con la necesidad de encontrar nuevos modos de expresión que fueran más alla de las palabras en un página, cuando comenzó a experimentar haciendo películas con los medios básicos a su alcance, incluso sin cámara. [...]