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.
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Known For | Directing |
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Most Rating | 1.484 |
Birthday | 1905-03-02 |
Place of Birth | St. Paul, Minnesota |
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1966
Galaxie
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In March and April of 1966, Markopoulos created this filmic portrait of writers and artists from his New York circle, including Parker Tyler, W. H. Au...
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Galaxie
1978
Notes for Jerome
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During the summer of 1966 Jonas Mekas spent two months in Cassis, as a guest of Jerome Hill. Mekas visited him briefly again in 1967, with P. Adams Si...
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Notes for Jerome
1950
Cassis
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An "autobiographical sketch" centered around small group of vacationers to Hill's estate in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. A gorgeous and relaxing film-s...
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Cassis
2007
365 Day Project
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This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007 and for...
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365 Day Project
1963
Hallelujah the Hills
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Jack and Leo vie for the affections of Vera – who appears a little differently to each man – over the course of a series of energetic sketches, flashb...
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Hallelujah the Hills
1997
Birth of a Nation
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Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
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Birth of a Nation
1968
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
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An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.
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Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1972
Film Portrait
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The life of Jerome Hill corresponded with the first formative decades of cinema and a greater part of the 20th century. Through fragments of Hill’s su...
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