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AFTER HOURS.

Film. Culture. Creative obsessions.
A listening room with Nick Nader.

The first transmission · Audio essay

Before Minus One.
There was 1954.

A return to the original Godzilla. Recorded in the lead-up to Godzilla Minus One, recovered from the archives, and finally given a place to live.

Listen to the essayGODZILLA (1954) · AUDIO EDITION
00:0024:24
HEADPHONES RECOMMENDED
001 / From the archiveCinema deserves a closer listen.Written & voiced by Nick Nader

The video got lost.
The voice didn’t.

This started as a video essay. Ahead of Godzilla Minus One, I went back to the original film and started making something of my own. Writing, recording, editing—the whole production was me.

Eventually, the editing burned me out. The project stalled. A few years later, I recovered the audio. The video may still be somewhere in the old Adobe files, but this part survived.

So here it is. And here’s a home for whatever comes next: audio essays, film obsessions, and conversations worth keeping.

— Nick

The listening archive

01 RELEASE
001

Godzilla (1954)

AUDIO ESSAY  ·  RECOVERED RECORDING  ·  24:24

One recovered recording. A new beginning.