Nathaniel Dorsky Movies
- 2019
Caracole (for Cecilia)
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The first in a brief series of small personal gifts, made in celebration of the first birthday of Cecilia, the daughter of Antonella Bonfanti who for...
- 1996
Triste
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Triste is an indication of the level of cinema language that I have been working towards. By delicately shifting the weight and solidity of the...
- 2013
Summer
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Summer in San Francisco is a dry and rainless season. The film, Summer, although photographed during this period of time, is not so much a...
- 2002
The Visitation
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The first of two devotional songs. Part One of a set of Two Devotional Songs. “The Visitation” is a gradual unfolding, an arrival so to...
- 2017
Abaton
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Abaton, a sacred place, a sanctuary for dreaming and healing.
- 2016
Death of a Poet
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A document from the weeks that Stan Brakhage was dying of bladder cancer. Dominic Angerame, then head of Canyon Cinema, and I went up to Victoria,...
- 2013
Kodachrome Carl Rakosi in Golden Gate Park
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Often I go out shooting with my Bolex in the park’s Arboretum. During the autumn and winter of 2003/2004 I would more than likely run into...
- 2014
Fortune
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Norman’s father was a society portrait painter. After his father’s death, Norman faces the burden of inheriting his father’s...
- 2020
Emanations
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Emanations is the third film made during the COVID crises… in this case October and November reveal small joys in a melancholic sea.
- 2023
O Death
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In the spirit of the times and my own growing older, a brief tip of the hat… (Nathaniel Dorsky)
- 1983
Ariel
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Ariel is a highly energetic and colorful divertissement of abstract film achieved with improvised home color processing and a physical, almost...
- 2021
Terce
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Terce is the sixth film made during the Covid crises… the yellow greens of spring at last… the beginning of a greater relaxation.
- 2018
Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle)
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Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle) has three sections. It is in the spirit of the early Chinese landscape colophons, a text added to the horizontal...
- 2019
Interlude
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“A brief lost moment lies between.” — Nathaniel Dorsky
- 1987
Alaya
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Sand, wind, and light intermingle with the emulsions. The viewer is the star.
- 2015
Autumn
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Autumn, photographed during the last months of the drought year, 2015, is a stately, but intimate, seasonal tome, a celebration of the poignancy and...
- 2013
Spring
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Nathaniel Dorsky's Spring conjures an abundant return of light and a retreat into nature so dense and rich that the film itself becomes a sort of...
- 1987
17 Reasons Why
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17 Reasons Why was photographed with a variety of semi-ancient regular 8 cameras and is projected unslit as 16mm. The four image format gives a look...
- 2014
December
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"I have been wanting to make a shorter film in and about a briefer period of time. December was photographed during this often turbulent month and...
- 2022
Naos
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A Naos is the inner room of an ancient Greek temple in which the image of the deity celebrated by that temple is depicted (usually in the form of a...