In 2003, Nathaniel Dorsky published Devotional Cinema, a small gem of a book on the pleasures and rewards of a cinema that searches for a purely visual language while still expressing human needs and values. It grew out of a class on avant-garde film he taught at UC Berkeley, and though his discussion ranges across his own avant-garde work, it also touches on films by Yasujiro Ozu, Robert Bresson, and Michelangelo Antonioni, among others. Tonight we present two of Dorsky's recent films, Threnody and Song and Solitude-one made as “an offering to a friend (Stan Brakhage) who died,” the other made “with the loving collaboration of Susan Vigil during the last year of her life”-together with an Ozu film of his choosing.