Country: USA
Year: 2002
Duration: 18
The Visitation is a gradual
unfolding, an arrival so to speak. I felt the necessity to describe an
occurence, not one specifically of time and place, but one of revelation in
one's psiche. The place of articulation is not so much in the realm of images as
information, but in the response of the heart to poignancy of the cuts". (N.
Dorsky)
"The first completed film of Dorsky's Two Devotional Songs.
This film hinges on a deeply refined and intuitive montage carved from both
crespecular and pellucid images. Many of these images deeply felt of gleaming
effulgence - still life, landscapes, daily actions and human repose - were shot
in Toronto, New York and San Francisco in the Autumn of 2001. The Visitation
obliquely alludes to an awekening catastrophe and it's equivalency to a
sacred event. Tracing in the aftermath of this visitation - the recoloring and
diffusion of tenderness and vulnerability as it rides aloft in the floating
world - the world that remains to the living" (M. McE).
Biography
film director
Nathaniel Dorsky
Nathaniel Dorsky (New York, 1943) began making 8mm films in 1955, when he was still a child. After studying at Antioch College and New York University, he began working in industrial films as an editor and cameraman. Over the course of his long career, he has developed a personal poetic style based on silent and experimental films.
FILMOGRAFIA
Ingreen (cm, 1964), A Fall Trip Home (cm, 1964), Summerwind (mm, 1965), Triste (1974-1996), Alaya (cm, 1976-1987), Pneuma (cm, 1977-1983), Hours For Jerome, Part 1 & 2 (cm, 1980-1982), Ariel (cm, 1983), 17 Reasons Why (cm, 1985-1987), Variations (cm, 1992-1998), Arbor Vitae (cm, 1999/2000), Love's Refrain (cm, 2000/2001), The Visitation (cm, 2002).
Cast
& Credits
Regia/Director: Nathaniel
Dorsky