Films during conference
Miller's Paris
As part of the symposium, we are proud to present a screening of “Henry Miller’s Paris,” a beautifully crafted short film by Rob Kolodny (House of Nod), created to commemorate the 2014 Aller Retour Paris event hosted by the Henry Miller Memorial Library.
This film is more than a documentary—it’s an elegy, a celebration, and a love letter to the city that shaped Miller’s early voice and vision. Set to music and infused with imagery from Parisian streets, it captures the spirit of creative freedom Miller found in—and gave to—the City of Light.
Trailer of film. password = blackspring
Henry Miller Asleep & Awake
"A voyage through writing, sex, spirituality, nightmares, and New York that captures the warmth and high animal spirits of singular American artist and auteur, Henry Miller, on an intimate tour of his bathroom gallery. It's a miraculous shrine of photos, drawings, and interstitial anecdotes of mad kings, philosophers, women, and friends of the author."
Henry Miller Asleep & Awake (Short 1975)
John Hunt filmed Henry when he first saw Henry Miler Asleep & Awake:
American Venus et Le Guide Bleu: A Surrealist Journey with Henry & Brenda (2025).
The third film in Joe Kishton's trilogy of Miller films;
Henry Miller is Not Dead (1991) and
The Genius and Mister Nobody (2010) concludes with
American Venus et Le Guide Bleu: A Surrealist Journey with Henry & Brenda (2025).
The Gift of Wisdom
Lisa Elliot-Rosas’s The Gift of Wisdom is a powerful and soul-stirring film that weaves together universal truths about the human journey, reminding us that our words, thoughts, and actions hold the power to either uplift or diminish both ourselves and others. Through inspiring reflections and golden insights, it explores the contrast between light – authentic care, gratitude, and purposeful creation- and darkness – fear, blame, judgment, and resentment – that keeps us trapped in the past or anxiously waiting for the future. At its heart, the film is a call to embrace the present moment as life’s greatest gift, to rise from challenges like the Phoenix, and to uncover the light within that connects us all. With the wisdom from writers Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin, it invites viewers to live fully, love deeply, and impact others with intention, showing that paradise begins within one’s heart and radiates outward through joy, peace and unity.