Jerome Hill

French love story about a fortune teller lusting after a strongman. (IMDB Comments)

Completed shortly before Hill's death in 1972, Film Portrait is the summation of his life's work in film, a vivid collage of home movies, earlier short films, and found footage. (Moma.org)

A portrait of Dr. Carl Jung at work in his yard filmed by Jerome Hill in 1950 and edited by Jonas Mekas in 1991.

A magic umbrella saves a girl from a mysterious attacker.

Footage of a bullfight, shot by Hill in 1934, hand-painted by the artist three decades later. (Jerome Foundation)

A young boy builds a sand castle on the beach while human comedies play out around him. Later, he falls asleep and dreams of his fellow beachgoers living and reveling in the castle.

Live-action footage of canaries, overlaid with hand-painted effects. (jeromefdn.org)

An animated Mary and Joseph attempt to find lodging in a modern city.

An autobiographical sketch.

1950 short film portrait of the octogenarian folk artist. Nominated for an Oscar in the category “Best Short Subject, One-reel”.

This biographical drama/documentary narrative written by Dr. Albert Schweitzer and spoken by Fredric March, traces the life of Dr. Schweitzer (with actors playing the characters), from his birth in France up to about the age of 30 when he makes the decision to go to French Equatorial Africa and build his jungle hospital. The latter half of the film encompasses a full day in the hospital-village following the 80s-plus Samaritan in his daily rounds. (Les Adams)

Not long after opening the first ski school in the United States to an impressive roster of celebrity students, Otto Lang became a noted ski film director and earned an Oscar nod for his efforts. Ski Flight, which premiered at the iconic Radio City Music Hall in 1938 is the first-ever theatrical ski film.