The Film Comment Letter: Refracted Light 🌈

May 03, 2024 The Film Comment Letter: Refracted Light 🌈 View in browser   |   filmcomment.com May 3, 2024 WEBSITE   |   PODCAST   |   LATEST Dear Readers,  Let the sunshine in! Today's Letter cracks open a window to shed some proverbial light on things. We begin with Max Goldberg's essay on Cinema Before 1300 , a new film by West Coast–based avant-garde legend Jerome Hiler. A discursive exploration of the luminous stained glass found in Gothic cathedrals across Europe, Hiler's "essay film" (for lack of a more precise term) is the centerpiece of a program starting May 9 at the Museum of Modern Art. The series will feature Hiler's densely allusive work alongside that of his longtime partner, Nathaniel Dorsky. (For more on these two titans of American experimental cinema, listen to our 2022 Podcast conversation with Dorsky, Hiler, and Light Industry co-founder Thomas Beard.) Next up, James Lattimer reports on this year' read