Though photos, mementos, art and more, the life of pioneering filmmaker and outdoor enthusiast Warren Miller will be explored in a new exhibit opening Friday, Nov. 15, at the Hermosa Beach Museum. Warren, who died in 2018 and would have turned 100 years old on Oct.
15, established his film business in Hermosa Beach at 505 Pier Ave. in 1960 and was located there until 1993. He went on to produce, direct and narrate hundreds of films on skiing, snowboarding, surfing and other outdoor sports.
“No Boundaries: The Life and Work of Warren Miller” will run through Jan. 16. The exhibit also marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of Warren Miller Entertainment, which still produces films to this day as part of the company Outside Inc.
The documentary “Warren Miller’s 75” documentary will be screening at the Hermosa Beach Community Center, beginning at 7:30 p.m. on the same evening of the exhibit opening, but the event is sold out.
Tickets are available for another screening in Culver City on Thursday, Nov. 14, according to warrenmiller.com.
Chris Miller, Warren Miller’s daughter and co-curator of the exhibit, said his film career came out of his “love of the outdoors,” its “freedoms” and his “desire to share all of what he had discovered.” “His idea of being indoors was to sleep at night, maybe get a meal or two, but he always wanted to be outside,” said Chris Miller, a former photographer at The Beach Reporter. Jamie Erickson, Hermosa Beach Museum dire.
