Jan 4 Helen Hill

helenhill.org

Helen Hill, Experimental filmmaker (Animator) mother, and good deed doer, was killed last week.

Although I never had the chance to meet her, I studied her book Recipes for Disaster last spring, when feeding a burgeoning love of handmade filmmaking while studying with Nicole Koschmann. Nicole knew Helen, and through reading the news articles and memorial impressions left by friends, I have the sense that the two women shared many of the same qualities. This incident is a confusing expression of the violence found in New Orleans.