Winter

Duration: 21.5

Creator: directed by Nathaniel Dorsky.

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: silent

Credits: Dorsky, Nathaniel, direction.

Description: Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. Access by appt. only. CBPF.; PFA 1608-01-13879. Restricted: For PFA exhibition only.; "The film looks shot day-for night, and often like Dorsky's held a flashlight to an underground civilization, so that time, season, city and country are already in sickly dissolve; Dorsky's abstraction--silhouettes. liquids, and window reflection--make it seem like the simple play of light could wash them away. In Dorsky's comedy. the city is an enclosed playhouse with a view onto the galaxy; repeatedly Dorsky emphasizes living things that look like toys {someone's body, face unseen, and a dog that looks stuffed gazing cockeyed at the cosmos} and toys that look alive {an extended, magic lantern show). The effect is a sleep-walking city moving unconsciously to a dance, the rhythm as always in Dorsky's crescendos of light and montage"--www.theLmagazine.com

Metadata Source:BERKELEY ART MUSEUM AND PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE