Four Films by Jerome Hiler

  • Jerome Hiler: Words of Mercury, 2011

  • Jerome Hiler: Words of Mercury, 2011

  • Jerome Hiler: Words of Mercury, 2011

  • Jerome Hiler: Careless Passage, 2024

  • Jerome Hiler: Gladly Given, 1997

  • Jerome Hiler: Marginalia, 2016

  • Friday, Aug 21, 2026

    7 PM (72 mins)
    BAMPFA

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Four Films by Jerome Hiler



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    Jerome Hiler

Jerome Hiler presents four films, including an early work, Gladly Given (1997); Words of Mercury (2011); Marginalia (2016); and his most recent film, Careless Passage (2024).

Films in this Screening

Careless Passage

Jerome Hiler, United States, 2024

“Wandering through the ordinary sights of day and night. How, in this vast cosmos, did all this happen? . . . [The film’s] purpose is to muse and swim among migrant sights seen by the transforming eye of a camera” (Jerome Hiler).

FILM DETAILS

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  • Color
  • 16mm
  • Silent
  • 20 mins
  • 18fps
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  • BAMPFA

Gladly Given

Jerome Hiler, United States, 1997

“Fragile and challenging in its seeming simplicity, Gladly Given unfolds and bristles with the delicacy of a Japanese Floating World painting while being gravitationally drawn into the containments and accidents of the everyday” (Mark McElhatten).

FILM DETAILS

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  • Color
  • 16mm
  • Silent
  • 13 mins
  • 18fps
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  • BAMPFA

Marginalia

Jerome Hiler, United States, 2016

“Marginalia is a contemplation in shades of grey and periodic color on the state and place of society in a quickly changing environment” (Jerome Hiler).

FILM DETAILS

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  • Color
  • 16mm
  • Silent
  • 17 mins
  • 18fps
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  • BAMPFA

Words of Mercury

Jerome Hiler, United States, 2011

“The film takes a journey from darkness and a bare world through the seasonal spreading of seeds to a place almost choked and repugnant with color—a place that invites death” (Jerome Hiler).

FILM DETAILS

Print Info

  • Color
  • 16mm
  • Silent
  • 22 mins
  • 18fps
source
  • BAMPFA

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