NAOS

Nathaniel Dorsky, USA, 16mm, 12 min, 2022

A naos is the inner room of an ancient Greek temple in which the image of the deity celebrated by that temple is depicted (usually in the form of a statue of that deity). Jacob, a young filmmaker, offered to help me with some shooting and became the centre of the film itself.

Nathaniel Dorsky (1943). 60+ films since 1964; screenings at venues including Austrian Film Museum, Centre Pompidou, Tate Modern, Media City Film Festival, Filmoteca Española, New York Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, and Whitney Biennial (2012); complete retrospective at New York Film Festival (2015). Author of Devotional Cinema (2003). Emmy Award (1967), Guggenheim Fellowship (1997). Lives in San Francisco, California.