Film 202 - Field Report 3 - Part one: "Three Songs"

Nathaniel Dorsky's silent piece, "Three Songs", harnesses the exclusion of sound to create a memory bank of vivid images that we may relate to our own process of remembering. The films present an array of seemingly non-related images in such a way that allows you to take them for yourself without any forced notion of meaning or greater significance posed by the filmmaker. The tight framing of the visuals assists in lending them to a more abstract basis eliminating the demand for an aural medium. Aaron Ximm believed that returning to a sound recording does not offer an adequate representation of the event, which may never truly be experienced again, but establishes a basis for the collective viewers to “collaborate on”. Dorsky’s “Three Songs” is a good example of this theory offering much for viewers to ponder throughout its silent beauty.