Will Hindle

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Journeys in the Kingdom of Shadows TrailerNotes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema” Trailer

Will "William Mayo" Hindle (December 29, 1929 – April 7, 1987) was an independent American filmmaker of personal visual 16mm movies. From 1958 to 1976, he made ten 16 mm motion pictures. He employed complex rear-projection rephotography, slow motion, and subtle tinting techniques in his work. His movies have been widely praised for their astonishing cinematic techniques and deep personal feeling.

Most Popular Will Hindle Trailers

Total trailers found: 14

29: Merci, Merci Trailer (1966)

01 January 1966

A rude and abrupt departure from Hindle's two early visual poems. Between those early works and MERCI, Hindle was sought to film the Winter Olympics, 150 short works for Westinghouse/CBS, and the South Sea voyages of Sterling Hayden's schooner, "Wanderer.

The Selves Trailer (1982)

01 January 1982

"I had an idea for quite some time for a film based on an essay by Lewis Thomas taken from a book that Will had lent me.

FFFTCM Trailer (1967)

30 November 1967

Renewed income and the ability to work on one's own produced this feeling and work. A Promethean awakening, de-bonding of the human spirit .

Watersmith Trailer (1969)

29 September 1969

Abstract visual poem celebrating the freedom of bodies moving through water. A filmmaker unconcerned with plot films the practice of an olympic swimming team and creates a visually stunning work.

Non Catholicam Trailer (1963)

01 January 1963

Set to the music of Hindemith, filmed entirely in a Gothic cathedral and edited to precision counter-point.

Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema” Trailer (1973)

26 March 1973

During the 1970s I shot, helped to make, or commissioned about ten document films, mainly about film-makers.

Journeys in the Kingdom of Shadows Trailer (2011)

01 January 2011

The life and times of master film artist Will Hindle. Featuring his ruined studio in the backwoods of Blountsville, Alabama, and his time as a teacher at the University of South Florida, Tampa.

Billabong Trailer (1968)

19 September 1968

A wordless impressionistic 'documentary' about a boys' camp.

Chinese Firedrill Trailer (1968)

09 March 1968

Hindle's prize-laden work of cataclysmic visual and mental schisms stands as one-of-a-kind. Human universals crammed into a moment (infinity?) in one small enclosure (the universe?).

Pasteur³ Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

What happens to a corporeal system when it's exposed to rabies and yellow fever.

Trekkerriff Trailer (1987)

01 January 1987

This remained in limbo for 24 years. The only people to have ever seen it were a few handfuls of Hindle's and, later, Shellie Fleming's students.

Later That Same Night Trailer (1971)

01 January 1971

Hindle's first all-southern-made work, filmed shortly after moving his studio from San Francisco to the lower Appalachians.

Saint Flournoy Lobos-Logos and the Eastern Europe Fetus Taxing Japan Brides in West Coast Places Sucking Alabama Air Trailer (1970)

01 January 1970

Presaging details and intent of the Charles Manson's cult and actions was not meant to be one of this film's greater attributes.

Pastorale d'été Trailer (1958)

29 October 1958

PASTORAL D'ETE is one of the nation's first works of the Personal Film movement. Hindle dovetails the lyrical images of a singular high summer's day heat.