17 Reasons Why

17 Reasons Why
Directed byNathaniel Dorsky
Distributed byCanyon Cinema
Release date
  • October 6, 1987 (1987-10-06)
Running time
19 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent

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 his only works to have been shown as a digital transfer.