Hours for Jerome (1982)

Directed by

Nathaniel Dorsky

Genre

silent film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

United States

Runtime

45 min

Rating

7.8 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A silent experimental film shows everyday moments from the director's life with his partner. It presents a series of short images arranged by season, with black leader between each one.

quietcontemplativelyricalfragmentedintimatetenderobservationalnon-narrativeslow-paced

What happens

Hours for Jerome is a 1982 American silent experimental film in two parts by Nathaniel Dorsky. It captures daily events from Dorsky's life with his partner, artist Jerome Hiler, around Lake Owassa in New Jersey and in Manhattan. These are presented in 66 sequences of disparate images, separated from each other by black leader. The film is structured around the four seasons, with Part 1 showing spring and summer while Part 2 revolves around fall and winter. The material for Hours for Jerome was filmed from 1966 to 1970. However, Dorsky had difficulty editing it and shelved the footage before returning to it years later. He released the completed film in December 1982 and restored it in 1998, slightly condensing it in the process. Hours for Jerome is Dorsky's earliest endeavor toward developing his distinct style of polyvalent montage, an approach inspired by the early writings of poet John Ashbery. Critics have compared the film's ardent depiction of everyday life to traditional books of hours, an association invoked by its title. The film was inducted into the National Film Registry in 2012. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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