Film Portrait (1972), Jerome Hill

1972. USA. The artists masterwork, a diary film in which he presents his life and milieu through old home movies and newlystaged scenes, many handcolored and animated for emotional and psychological effect. 81 min. The life of Jerome Hill corresponded with the first seven decades of cinema and a greater part of the 20th century. Through fragments of Hills painted, surrealistic, and documentary films, this autobiographical work explores the years during which he was developing as a young man and an artist. Insights into his childhood in the St. Paul home of James J. Hill, his creative life in New York, and his guestfilled house in France shape a beautiful and aesthetically complete documentary of one mans view of art in society, expressed through a very telling mix of emotional filters.