Variations (1998)

Wissenswertes

Variations is a 1998 American silent short avant-garde film directed by Nathaniel Dorsky. It is the second film in a set of "Four Cinematic Songs", which also includes Triste, Arbor Vitae, and Love's Refrain.

Production

Since the 1960s, Dorsky had operated by shooting footage without a specific use in mind and then editing films together from the available shots. For Variations, he began to rely exclusively on newly recorded material. Dorsky worked using a Bolex camera, recording primarily on 16 mm Kodachrome 25 stock. Dorsky's compositions in Variations are influenced by Early Renaissance painting.

For Dorsky, Variations marked a progression in his polyvalent editing style. He drew connections between shots based on elements like colors, patterns, or iconography. Dorsky sequenced the shots so that they could link back to earlier shots in the montage, beyond the cuts that connect them. By using this strategy, he aimed "to make a montage that opens up yet accumulates."

Auf Wikipedia weiterlesen · Text aus Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Daten aus Wikidata.