17 Reasons Why (1987)

Directed by

Nathaniel Dorsky

Country

United States

Runtime

21 min

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This avant-garde short film uses split screen with four quadrants made from secondhand 8 mm footage. It shows multiple simultaneous perspectives without a traditional story.

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What happens

17 Reasons Why is a 1987 American avant-garde short film directed by Nathaniel Dorsky. Working with a collection of secondhand portable cameras, Dorsky used the unslit 8 mm footage to create a split screen with four quadrants. Normally screened on 16 mm film at 16 frames per second, it is one of Dorsky's few works to have been shown as a digital transfer. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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