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Triste is an indication of the level of cinema language that I have been working towards. By delicately shifting the weight and solidity of the images, and bringing together subject matter not ordinarily associated, a deeper sense of impermanence and mystery can open. The images are as much pure-energy objects as representation of verbal understanding and the screen itself is transformed into a “speaking” character. The “sadness” referred to in the title is more the struggle of the film itself to become a film as such, rather than some pervasive mood. N. D.

Triste.mkv

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Arbor Vitae is a gesture towards a cinema of pure being. Its atmosphere is haunted by the period in which it was shot, the year of 1999. Although the cuts are open and numerous in their intent, the underlying motivation is the delicate reveal of the transparency of presence, our tender mystery midst the elaborate unfolding of the tree of life.
N. D.

Arbor.Vitae.2000.1080p.x264-SaL.mkv

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A dedication to Jane Wodening and an ode to the winter sun.

“Nathaniel Dorsky” wrote:
The title Apricity refers to the warmth of the sun in winter. It is an homage to the writer Jane (Brakhage) Wodening. In speaking to her I mused, ‘perhaps your age is the winter and you are the warmth of the sun.’

Apricity.2019.720p.WEB.x264-ZineSouce.mkv

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Arbor Vitae is a gesture towards a cinema of pure being. Its atmosphere is haunted by the period in which it was shot, the year of 1999. Although the cuts are open and numerous in their intent, the underlying motivation is the delicate reveal of the transparency of presence, our tender mystery midst the elaborate unfolding of the tree of life.

arborvitae_dorsky (1080p).mkv

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“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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This film is a portrait of the passage of one year in the lives of some San Francisco friends, circa 1988 (before the dot.coming of the city), a slow marijuana hazed story which drifts like the fabled fog, encompassing the quirks and habits of a generation that made the city theirs, if only for a while. Very obliquely REMBRADT LAUGHING sketches the time and place, encompassing the Aids epidemic, the casual sexual revolution, the debris of ’68 lingering in the air. A quiet, very San Francisco comedy of life among a small group of friends. REMBRANDT LAUGHING was improvised over the period of about a month by Jost and his friends, mostly acting non-professionals.
(Jon Jost)

Jon Jost’s ninth feature focuses rather elliptically on the everyday lives of a group of friends in San Francisco–chiefly Claire (Barbara Hammes), who works in an architect’s office, two of her former lovers (Jon A. English and Nathaniel Dorsky), who are close friends, and a recent boyfriend (Jim Nisbet). Masterfully shot and for the most part very persuasively acted, mainly by nonprofessionals (the film’s use of locals is one reason it captures the San Francisco milieu so perfectly), REMBRANDT LAUGHING is a good deal more ambitious than it might first appear. A sense of the timeless and the cosmic hovers over the seemingly casual scenes, and the uses of a Rembrandt self-portrait and Beethoven’s opus 132 string quartet are integral to the film’s overall project–to discover the universe in a bowl of miso soup. Part of Jost’s method, like Godard’s in UNE FEMME MARIEE, is to convert the dramatic into the graphic, and his various means of carrying that out are unexpected and frequently beautiful.
(Jonathan Rosenbaum)

Rembrandt Laughing.mkv

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Compline is a night devotion or prayer, the last of the canonical hours, the final act in a cycle. This film is also the last film I will be able to shoot in Kodachrome, a film stock I have shot since I was 10 years old. It is a loving duet with and a fond farewell to this noble emulsion.
–Nathaniel Dorsky

277MB | 17m 43s | 720×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/E5640CE7A47D1D0/Compline.mkv

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