17 Reasons Why

Working with a collection of secondhand portable cameras, Dorsky used the unslit 8 mm footage to create a split screen with four quadrants.

[2] The content of the images varies between landscapes, interior scenes, faces, extreme close-ups of objects, and color fields.

[3] His use of multiple cameras and film stocks produced different colors, textures, and gate shapes in the resulting footage.

A 2019 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Private Lives Public Spaces, featured 100 works of "artist's cinema, amateur movies, and family filmmaking".

"[9][10] Critic Amy Taubin described the film as "lively, glittering, and mysterious", writing that it "has the surprise and resonance of accomplished ensemble jazz improvisation.

Double 8 mm film is made by shooting along each side of a 16 mm film strip and splitting it in half during development. Dorsky used unslit Double 8 to create a 16 mm film with four images per frame.