Nathaniel Dorsky – Hours for Jerome (1982)
“This footage was shot and edited from 1966 to 1970 and then edited to completion over a two year period ending in July 1982. Hours for Jerome (as in a Book of Hours) is an arrangement of images, energies, and illuminations from daily life. These fragments of light revolve around the four seasons. Part one is spring through summer; Part two is fall and winter.” (N. D.)
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“Hours for Jerome is simply the most beautifully photographed film that I’ve ever seen … After exposure to such dense filmic possibilities pretty much the rest of casual moviegoing resounds as hopelessly poverty-stricken.”
Warren Sonbert
Hours for Jerome, likely Nathaniel Dorsky’s best-known yet too-rarely-seen work, screens as the centrepiece of this first of two nights of analogue film by Dorsky and his creative partner Jerome Hiler. The title refers to the “book of hours,” a common medieval devotional text. While Dorsky has stated that this isn’t where the true meaning of the film lies—that would be its polyvalent editing technique, which reaches full flower here—the overwhelming richness of Hours is rooted in a time of transformation in Dorsky and Hiler’s life together, a natural flow of suspended moments captured in luminous Kodachrome. Tender beauty and meticulous, deliberately patterned structure operate in concert at every stage of the film’s four-seasons sequence. As Dorsky puts it, “I wanted to have my cake and eat it too, and I think I did.”
Hours.for.Jerome.1982.720p.WEB.x264-SaL.mkv
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Container: Matroska
Runtime: 1 h 0 min
Size: 1.35 GiB
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Codec: x264
Resolution: 994x718
Aspect ratio: 1.384
Frame rate: 18.000 fps
Bit rate: 3 202 kb/s
BPP: 0.249
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Language(s):Silent
Subtitles:None
