Excavations

Nathaniel Dorsky
Part of

53rd New York Film Festival

September 25 - October 11, 2015

A 1971 move to San Francisco brought Dorsky into an exploration of the essence of film itself: the grain, “the raw emulsion of cinema”… an endlessly changing four-frame image … light and wind on shifting grains of sand, “little short of a miracle” (Stan Brakhage).

DIRECTOR
Nathaniel Dorsky
RUNTIME
75 minutes

Pneuma (1977-83, 28m)
17 Reasons Why (1985-87, 19m)
Alaya (1976-87, 28m)

A 1971 move to San Francisco brought Dorsky into an exploration of the essence of film itself: the grain, “the raw emulsion of cinema”… an endlessly changing four-frame image… light and wind on shifting grains of sand, “little short of a miracle” (Stan Brakhage).

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