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

256 pages · 170x240mm

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.

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

Cover photograph: Still of Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler in Warren Sonbert's The Tenth Legion.

© 1967 by The Estate of Warren Sonbert, courtesy of Gartenberg Media Enterprises and Light Cone.

This book, as well as its Spanish edition published in 2022, was made possible by the continuing and generous support of Owsley Brown III. Thanks to: Nathaniel Dorsky, Jerome Hiler, Owsley Brown III, Tina Tom, Owsley Brown Charitable Foundation, Emmanuel Lefrant, Federico Rossin, Tillyan Bourdon, Mariya Nikiforova, Miguel Armas, Annette González Parra, Light Cone, Nina Zurier, Jon Gartenberg, The Estate of Warren Sonbert, Gartenberg Media Enterprises, Elena Duque, Gloria Vilches, Arca Puerto, César Saldaña Puerto, Miriam Campos-Quinn, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, Pacific Film Archive, Haden Guest, Mark Johnson, Amy J. Sloper, Harvard Film Archive, Max Goldberg, Pablo Marín, Laura I. Bernal, Marilyn Brakhage, The Estate of Stan Brakhage, Sebastian Mekas, The Estate of Jonas Mekas, Seth Mitter, Antonella Bonfanti, Steve Polta, Canyon Cinema, Anna Brufau, Filmoteca de Catalunya, The Film-Makers' Cooperative, Sheldon Henderson, Maximilien Luc Proctor, Miguel García, Martin Grennberger, Daniel A. Swarthnas, John Klacsmann, Anthology Film Archives, Frederick Eberstadt, Andrew Makowsky, Mark Birnbaum, Reed Bye, Susan Vigil, and Tony Baczewski.

Each text is copyrighted by its author(s), except where otherwise noted in the credits on pages 250-51.

This edition © 2023 by Asociación Lumière.

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ISBN: 978-8-4940-9766-9