DORSKY & HILER, PGM 1: NATHANIEL DORSKY
CARACOLE (FOR IZCALI) 2023, 17.5 min, 16mm, silent "In the last few years I have been making a series of cinematic portraits of young filmmaking friends acting as collaborators in portraiture. There is always a surprise as to what the Bolex reveals of a person that is not revealed with the naked eye. This happened in a very strong way with Jacob while shooting PAVANE. But I was not prepared for the surprise that took place when I looked through the camera at Linda. I suddenly saw her as never before and asked without hesitation if she were Aztec. She responded enthusiastically that indeed she was, in fact, her middle name is Izcali, after the important Aztec festival month of rebirth." –Nathaniel Dorsky NAOS 2022, 12 min, 16mm, silent "A Naos is the inner room of an ancient Greek temple in which the image of the deity celebrated by that temple is depicted (usually in the form of a statue of that deity). Jacob, a young filmmaker, offered to help me with some shooting and became the center of the film itself." –Nathaniel Dorsky DREAMS REVEAL A WEIGHTLESS WORLD 2016/24, 20 min, 16mm, silent "OSSUARY was made up of the Kodachrome outs and trims from more than a decade of shooting and making films in Kodachrome. This new film, DREAMS REVEAL A WEIGHTLESS WORLD, is made from the Kodachrome outs from editing OSSUARY… It is the outs of the outs, so to speak." –Nathaniel Dorsky