Nathan-ism

At the end of World War II, Nathan Hilu, the son of Syrian Jewish immigrants to New York, received a life-changing assignment from the U.S. Army: to guard the top Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg trials. This experience fueled a lifetime of artistic inspiration for Nathan, a virtually unknown “outsider artist”, who spent the next 70 years obsessively creating a visual narrative from his memories. But what happens when those memories take on a life of their own? NATHAN-ISM explores Nathan's relationship with his own stories, and the compulsion he has to share them with a world that doesn't always listen.

“Nathan-ism is an intimate portrait of a peculiar and complex artist... a quest to keep memories alive and transcend the limits of our existence.” – Hoy Sale Cine

“Hilu narrates with the belief of a guru, making everything he’s saying implicitly engaging.” – Film Threat