Film Screening:

18 at 18: Nathaniel Dorsky at Duke (Program 4)

-- World Premiere!
-- Filmmaker in attendance.

The Duke University Master of Fine Arts in Experimental and Documentary Arts program welcomes visiting artist Nathaniel Dorsky to Duke and Durham in the spring semester of 2018 for four nights of films, February 2-5. The program, entitled 18 at 18, features 18 films from the filmmaker, screened at silent speed, 18 frames per second.

The Arboretum Cycle, photographed at the San Francisco Arboretum in 2017, will be screened in its entirety as a world premiere.

Arboretum Cycle:

Elohim
(Nathaniel Dorsky, 2017, 31 min, USA, Silent, Color, 16mm)
Elohim, or divine beings, the energy of light as creation.

Abaton
(Nathaniel Dorsky, 2017, 19 min, USA, Silent, Color, 16mm)
Abaton, a sacred place, a sanctuary for dreaming and healing.

Coda
(Nathaniel Dorsky, 2017, 16 min, USA, Silent, Color, 16mm)
Coda is an afterword to Elohim and Abaton, the first shades of death and knowing.

Ode
(Nathaniel Dorsky, 2017, 20 min, USA, Silent, Color, 16mm)
Ode is the fourth section of the cycle… there is now the presence of death and dying as the dry summer begins.

September
(Nathaniel Dorsky, 2017, 20 min, USA, Silent, Color, 16mm)
September’s ripeness, a blessing on earth, our Indian summer…

Monody
(Nathaniel Dorsky, 2017, 16 min, USA, Silent, Color, 16mm)
A monody is an ode sung by a single actor in a Greek tragedy, a poem lamenting a person’s death. In this case, the sixth section of this Arboretum Cycle, the death of the garden itself.

Epilogue
(Nathaniel Dorsky, 2017, 15 min, USA, Silent, Color, 16mm)
Epilogue is the seventh and final film in the Arboretum Cycle, a descent into the dark damp earth, a period of dying.

Sponsors: the Duke University MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts, the Vice Provost for the Arts, the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), and the Center for Documentary Studies.

Free tickets available here.
If sold-out, please note that there will be a stand-by line at the venue each evening for attendees without ticket reservations. Once all ticketed patrons have been seated, those in the stand-by line will be afforded any vacant seats on first-come-first served basis!

Parking Info: https://artscenter.duke.edu/parking/