Devotional Cinema by Nathaniel Dorsky (Softcover)
Published by Tuumba Press, 2003
Perfect bound softcover
First edition
52 pages
8x5.5 inches
Near Fine condition.
Experimental filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky discusses the conjunction of religion and film from the vantage of a devotee. The crux of his discussion is a nuanced understanding of "devotion" not as an experience specific to religion but rather as "the opening or the interruption that allows us to experience what is hidden and accept with our hearts our given situation." Moving through meditations on image-moments in works by key filmmakers (Carl Theodor Dreyer, Yasujiro Ozu, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Roberto Rossellini), Dorsky arrives at the heart of what constitutes a devotional practice. It is metaphysical and technical; this lovely little masterpiece is about the medium of experience, the projection of devotion, the making of art.
Published by Tuumba Press, 2003
Perfect bound softcover
First edition
52 pages
8x5.5 inches
Near Fine condition.
Experimental filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky discusses the conjunction of religion and film from the vantage of a devotee. The crux of his discussion is a nuanced understanding of "devotion" not as an experience specific to religion but rather as "the opening or the interruption that allows us to experience what is hidden and accept with our hearts our given situation." Moving through meditations on image-moments in works by key filmmakers (Carl Theodor Dreyer, Yasujiro Ozu, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Roberto Rossellini), Dorsky arrives at the heart of what constitutes a devotional practice. It is metaphysical and technical; this lovely little masterpiece is about the medium of experience, the projection of devotion, the making of art.
Published by Tuumba Press, 2003
Perfect bound softcover
First edition
52 pages
8x5.5 inches
Near Fine condition.
Experimental filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky discusses the conjunction of religion and film from the vantage of a devotee. The crux of his discussion is a nuanced understanding of "devotion" not as an experience specific to religion but rather as "the opening or the interruption that allows us to experience what is hidden and accept with our hearts our given situation." Moving through meditations on image-moments in works by key filmmakers (Carl Theodor Dreyer, Yasujiro Ozu, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Roberto Rossellini), Dorsky arrives at the heart of what constitutes a devotional practice. It is metaphysical and technical; this lovely little masterpiece is about the medium of experience, the projection of devotion, the making of art.
