Ode: Film Still
Ode
Nathaniel Dorsky | 2017 | 20 minutes | silent speed | 18fps | 16 mm | color | silent
Ode is the final section of the quartet… there is now the presence of death and dying as the dry summer begins. ND
These four films spontaneously manifested as four stages of life: childhood, youth, maturity, and old age. ELOHIM (31 min.) was photographed in early spring, the week of the lunar new year, the very spirit of Creation. ABATON (19 min.) was photographed a few weeks later in the full ripeness of spring, the very purity and passion of the Garden. CODA (16 min.) was photographed in late spring, in the aftermath of this purity, the first shades of mortality and Knowledge appearing. And finally, ODE (20 min.), photographed in early summer, is a soft textured song of the Fallen, the dissonant reds of death, seeds and rebirth. ND
