Leo Hurwitz
Director · 1909 – 1991 · New York, New York
Son of a Russian anarchist, Leo Hurwitz graduated Harvard summa cum laude and became a leader in New York’s left wing film movement from the early 1930s on. In the Workers’ Film and Photo League, NYKino, and Frontier Films, Hurwitz remained the quintessential politically committed cameraman, editor, writer, and director.
Movies4
Movie7.9DocumentaryA documentary about the film-maker's wife and co-worker, Peggy Lawson, who died in 1971.
Dialogue with a Woman Departed
1980 · 7 votes
MovieDocumentaryDocumentary about American filmmaker Leo Hurwitz.
Movie6.6DocumentaryThis documentary studies the life and artwork of photographer Paul Strand, using his own compelling photography as well as interviews with his friends, acquaintances and third wife. Documentarian John Walker explores the various influences Strand encountered throughout his life that helped him to develop as an artist. His personal life and relationships are examined and shed light on the inner working of this man who achieved great renown while hiding "under the dark cloth."
Strand, Under the Dark Cloth
1989 · 5 votes
MovieDocumentaryFollowing his use of art, painting and sculpture, in his work of the previous decades, Hurwitz took on a project for the American Foundation of the Arts aimed on deepening and enriching, for art students, the way in which we see. Working with his second wife, the editor Peggy Lawson, he made four short films comprising The Art of Seeing Series. The films, made without words, are beautiful poems to the pleasure of sight. This is the second part of his series.