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Sunday June 19, 7:30pm<\/span>
\nStorm De Hirsch<\/strong><\/span>
\n“Third Eye Butterfly”\u00a0and Other Films<\/strong> <\/span>
\nwith Bradley Eros<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h1>\n

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Still from “Third Eye Butterfly” (Storm De Hirsch, 1968) – \u00a9 Anthology Film Archives<\/span>
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\n\u201cI don’t want to put any labels on my films\u2026 I never impose on you; you need to find what you have to find.\u201d \u2013 Storm De Hirsch<\/em><\/span>
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Microscope Gallery is extremely pleased to present a rare screening of three films by seminal artist Storm de Hirsch, filmmaker, poet, painter, and a co-founder of The Film-maker’s Cooperative in New York in 1961. Despite her extensive presence and influence in the avant-garde film scene of New York in the 1960s, De Hirsch’s work and history has largely remained obscure, especially since her death in 2000.\u00a0De Hirsch’s pioneering films\u00a0often involve\u00a0direct scratching, coloring, etching, painting on film and\u00a0animation applied to imagery shot in everyday life.<\/span><\/p>\n

The program opens with De Hirsch\u2019s first film, \u201cSilently, Bearing Totem of a Bird”,\u00a0a rare silent work by the artist and to be shown in Super 8mm. De Hirsch, who was\u00a0a poet with published collections at the time of its making, explained her shift to visual formats – two of many recently rediscovered paintings by the artist appear in the gallery\u2019s current group exhibit \u201cOff Screen\u201d – as reaching a point where she no longer had any words to accommodate what she wanted to say. <\/span><\/p>\n

De Hirsch\u2019s 35 minute 16mm film\u00a0“The Tattooed Man” (1969), the longest piece of the screening, was\u00a0described by\u00a0Stan VanDerBeek as “a major work in terms of style, structure, graphic invention, image manipulation and symbolic ritual\u201d. The soundtrack composed by the artist features the beats of a tabla\u00a0meticulously synchronized to the film’s numerous cuts.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Third Eye Butterfly”\u00a0is a double 16mm projection piece in which the two screens \u00a0\u2013 at times divided\u00a0within into additional \u201cmini-screens\u201d causing textured kaleidoscopic effects – blur\u00a0to create a third wider frame, encouraging the viewers to extend their vision beyond ordinary sight.\u00a0Bradley Eros will project this final film of the night\u00a0following the guidelines left by the artist.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c[Storm De Hirsch’s] films are assaults on the viewer in their brilliant use of color, pure light, and sensory imaginations of memory and beauty. [\u2026] it seems to me truly amazing that [her] work is so completely ignored in the canon of experimental filmmaking.\u201d – Gwendolyn Audrey Forster<\/span><\/p>\n

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$8 \u2013 general admission<\/span><\/em>
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\n STORM DE HIRSCH’s films were screened during her lifetime at the Museum of Modern Art, the Cannes Film Festival, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, and the Whitney Museum of American Art among others. De Hirsch has several published books of poetry, including “Alleh Lulleh Cockatoo and Other Poems”\u00a0(Brigant Press, 1955), “Twilight Massacre and Other Poems”\u00a0(Folder Editions, 1964), “The Shape of Change”, and “The Atlantean Poems”. She has also received several awards, including the first independent film grant from the American Film Institute for “The Tattooed Man”,\u00a0and the New York Women in Film & Television’s Women’s Film Preservation Fund in 2000 for “Divinations”. \u00a0De Hirsch also taught courses at School of Visual Arts and Bard College.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nProgram:<\/strong><\/span>
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\nSilently, Bearing Totem of a Bird<\/strong>\u00a0(1962) <\/span>
\n Super 8mm, color, 6 minutes 30 seconds<\/span>
\n The first short film made by de Hirsch.<\/span>
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\nThe Tattooed Man\u00a0<\/strong>(1969)<\/span>
\n 16mm film, color, sound, 35 minutes<\/span>
\n With an original soundtrack by the artist<\/span>
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\n\u201cSound is an integral part of de Hirsch’s films, and she creates all of her own sounds and aural effects. In\u00a0The Tattooed Man, we hear a tabla (an Indian percussion instrument) throughout the 35-minute duration of the film, giving it a flowing movement and extremely sensual quality. De Hirsch painstakingly matches the sound with every inch of film (a process she says is a ‘pain in the neck’), so that it corresponds to every cut and intershot movement.\u201d \u2013 Owen Gleiberman<\/span>
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\nThird Eye Butterfly\u00a0<\/strong>(1968)<\/span>
\n Double 16mm projection, color, sound, 10 minutes<\/span>
\n Projection by Bradley Eros<\/span>
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\n\u201cWhere is the light coming from? The flavor of the colors are succulent to the long vision in the soul. How can dust cover the arrows of light? How can darkness favor oblivion in the face of light? The variations of soul-touch exist in the auras of illumination. The Great Eye dominates.\u201d \u2013 Storm de Hirsch<\/span>
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\nStill from “The Tattooed Man” (Storm De Hirsch, 1969) – \u00a9 Anthology Film Archives<\/span>
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\nMicroscope Gallery Events Series 2016 is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).
\nWith the underwriting support of the Robert D. Bielecki Foundation.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sunday June 19, 7:30pm Storm De Hirsch “Third Eye Butterfly”\u00a0and Other Films with Bradley Eros Still from “Third Eye Butterfly” (Storm De Hirsch, 1968) – \u00a9 Anthology Film Archives \u201cI don’t want to put any labels on my films\u2026 I never impose on you; you need to find what you have to find.\u201d \u2013 Storm […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18074","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18074"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18139,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18074\/revisions\/18139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}