Dorsky, Nathaniel & Hiler, Jerome - Illuminated Hours: The Early Cinema of Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler

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Francisco Algarín Navarro and Carlos Saldaña (Editors).
Illuminated Hours: The Early Cinema of Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler.

Lumiére, 2023.

Softcover.

256 pages.

New.

Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler met in 1964 at the premiere of Dorsky’s first film, Ingreen. This encounter marked the beginning of a shared life and a series of creative exchanges. Covering a span of over forty years, this book brings together interviews, writings, and documents related to the 16mm films made by the two filmmakers in New York, at the country house in New Jersey where they lived in the late 1960s, and in San Francisco, where they moved in 1971 and currently reside.

Illuminated Hours: The Early Cinema of Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler covers each filmmaker's life and work from childhood to the early 2000s, telling a story of self-discovery and personal and artistic relationship. It features extensive original interviews as well as new and reprinted texts by Anne Waldman, Haden Guest, Arindam Sen, Pablo Marín, Celeste Araújo, Mark McElhatten, Jonas Mekas, Stan Brakhage, Warren Sonbert, and Max Goldberg, along with more than a hundred color photographs, documents, and stills.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Letter to the Editors
NATHANIEL DORSKY

Interview with Jerome Hiler, Part 1
FRANCISCO ALGARÍN NAVARRO AND CARLOS SALDAÑA

Conversation with Nathaniel Dorsky on Ingreen, A Fall Trip Home and Summerwind
MARK MCELHATTEN

Two Drafts of Notes on Ingreen
NATHANIEL DORSKY

Interview with Nathaniel Dorsky
FRANCISCO ALGARÍN NAVARRO AND CARLOS SALDAÑA

Notes on Hours for Jerome
NATHANIEL DORSKY

Recollections of the Stone House
ANNE WALDMAN

Library
JEROME HILER

Letter from Jonas Mekas to Nathaniel Dorsky
JONAS MEKAS

Two Letters from Stan Brakhage to Nathaniel Dorsky
STAN BRAKHAGE

Program Notes for PFA on Nathaniel Dorsky
WARREN SONBERT

Charts for the Grass Film
NATHANIEL DORSKY

Variations on Grain
CELESTE ARAÚJO

Notes for an Article on 17 Reasons Why
NATHANIEL DORSKY

Sunset Sucks: Some Reasons for the Beauty of 17 Reasons Why
PABLO MARÍN

Arcs and Rhymes: Montage as Experience in Nathaniel Dorsky's Triste and Hours for Jerome
FRANCISCO ALGARÍN NAVARRO AND CARLOS SALDAÑA

Heart of Glass
HADEN GUEST

Interview with Jerome Hiler, Part 2
FRANCISCO ALGARÍN NAVARRO AND CARLOS SALDAÑA

Brief Ruminations on Two Films: In the Stone House and New Shores
ARINDAM SEN

Once More to the Lake
MAX GOLDBERG

Image and Manuscript Credits

Filmographies of Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler

First American edition, 2023
Publishers and editors: Francisco Algarín Navarro and Carlos Saldaña
Translation: Matthew Gleeson and Carlos Saldaña
Copyediting and proofreading: Nick Hoff
Design: Blanca Gómez Terán and John Borruso