Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

  • 2019
    Caracole (for Cecilia)

    Caracole (for Cecilia)

    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...

    Caracole (for Cecilia)
  • 1996
    Triste

    Triste

    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...

    Triste
  • 2013
    Summer

    Summer

    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...

    Summer
  • 2002
    The Visitation

    The Visitation

    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...

    The Visitation
  • 2017
    Abaton

    Abaton

    Abaton

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    Abaton, a sacred place, a sanctuary for dreaming and healing.

    Abaton
  • 2016
    Death of a Poet

    Death of a Poet

    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,...

    Death of a Poet
  • 2013
    Kodachrome Carl Rakosi in Golden Gate Park

    Kodachrome Carl Rakosi in Golden Gate Park

    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...

    Kodachrome Carl Rakosi in Golden Gate Park
  • 2014
    Fortune

    Fortune

    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...

    Fortune
  • 2020
    Emanations

    Emanations

    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.

    Emanations
  • 2023
    O Death

    O Death

    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)

    O Death
  • 1983
    Ariel

    Ariel

    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...

    Ariel
  • 2021
    Terce

    Terce

    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.

    Terce
  • 2018
    Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle)

    Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle)

    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...

    Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle)
  • 2019
    Interlude

    Interlude

    Interlude

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    “A brief lost moment lies between.” — Nathaniel Dorsky

    Interlude
  • 1987
    Alaya

    Alaya

    Alaya

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    Sand, wind, and light intermingle with the emulsions. The viewer is the star.

    Alaya
  • 2015
    Autumn

    Autumn

    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...

    Autumn
  • 2013
    Spring

    Spring

    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...

    Spring
  • 1987
    17 Reasons Why

    17 Reasons Why

    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...

    17 Reasons Why
  • 2014
    December

    December

    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...

    December
  • 2022
    Naos

    Naos

    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...

    Naos