From: konrad (email suppressed)
Date: Thu Aug 09 2007 - 15:51:48 PDT
kino21 presents
Triste
&
Threnody
Nathaniel Dorsky in person
Thursday August 16th at 7PM
SF Camererawork Gallery
657 Mission St (at Third Street)
Second Floor
San Francisco
phone 415-512-2020
Triste, 16mm color/silent, 18 minutes (1974-1996)
"Dorsky describes the title refering to the struggle
of the film material itself to become a Film, an
artifact, as such. Its structure indeed signifies a
struggle of birth, transformation and death, beginning
with scratched and stressed hand-processed raw film,
settling into a long abstract montage, and ending with
a coda of hand-processed camera footage. The central
section was a breakthrough in montage technique from
the more episodic, activity-oriented and seasonal
structures of HOURS FOR JEROME (1982). TRISTE was
followed by three more "cinematic songs" in the next 5
years (VARIATIONS, ARBOR VITAE, and LOVE'S REFRAIN)
all of which refined and extended the potentials of
the camerawork and montage implicit in that central
section." -- KS
Threnody, 16mm color/silent, 25 minutes (2004)
"THRENODY is a somber but luminous progression through
a delicate articulation of earthly phenomena ... an
offering to a friend who died. It is the second of two
devotional songs, the first being THE VISITATION.
These two films were preceeded by a series of Four
Cinematic Songs: TRISTE, VARIATIONS, ARBOR VITAE, and
LOVE'S REFRAIN." -- ND
Next show:
SEPT 27th
at Artists Television Access
Guy Debord's
IN GIRUM IMUS NOCTE ET CONSUMIMUR IGNI
* with English language soundtrack *
^Z
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