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Thursday, April 3, 2014, 12:00 am

CROSSROADS 2014: Nathaniel Dorsky, Three Premieres

Nathaniel Dorsky In Person

YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS

701 Mission Street (at Third St)

San Francisco, CA 94103





Presented in association with Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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Please note: This screening is excluded from the CROSSROADS 2014 festival pass.

San Francisco Cinematheque opens its annual CROSSROADS film festival with a special screening with Bay Area master filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky's new quartet of films, including two world premieres and a Bay Area premiere, all created in 2013–2014.

“In film, there are two ways of including human beings. One is depicting human beings. Another is to create a film form which, in itself, has all the qualities of being human: tenderness, observation, fear, relaxation, the sense of stepping into the world and pulling back, expansion, contraction, changing, softening, tenderness of heart..."

Song (2013) by Nathaniel Dorsky; 16mm, color, silent, 18.5 minutes, print from the maker
            “Song was photographed in San Francisco from early October through the winter solstice in late December, 2012.” (Nathaniel Dorsky)

Spring (2013) by Nathaniel Dorsky; 16mm, color, silent, 23 minutes, print from the maker bay area premiere
            
Spring was photographed during the months following the winter solstice. I wanted to see if I could make a film that was in itself a garden, a film that, like the world of plants, would yearn and stretch in the oncoming light.” (Nathaniel Dorsky)

Summer (2013) by Nathaniel Dorsky; 16mm, color, silent, 22.5 minutes, print from the maker world premiere
            “Summer in San Francisco is a dry and rainless season. The film Summer, although photographed during this period of time, is not so much a description of summer, as it is a cinematic response to that world of our being.” (Nathaniel Dorsky)

December (2014) by Nathaniel Dorsky; 16mm, color, silent, 14.5 minutes, print from the maker world premiere
              “I have been wanting to make a shorter film in and about a briefer period of time. December was photographed during this often turbulent month and edited soon after. It has a purity of form which I find quite rewarding.” (Nathaniel Dorsky)