17 Reasons Why (1987)

Directed by

Nathaniel Dorsky

Country

United States

Runtime

21 min

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

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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