Harry Hurwitz; Independent Filmmaker

Harry Hurwitz, 57, independent filmmaker and artist whose works are in the permanent collections of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and Washington’s National Gallery. He converted his lifelong obsession with Charlie Chaplin into the 1964 documentary “The Eternal Tramp.” In 1971, his critically acclaimed “The Projectionist” interwove fantasy and reality in the tale of a projectionist who imagines a fantasy life as a super-hero. Hurwitz also won an underground following with three films he directed under the pseudonym Harry Tampa: “Fairy Tales,” “Auditions” and “Nocturna.” On Sept. 21 of heart failure in Los Angeles.