Nathaniel Dorsky Movies
- 2022
Caracole (for Mac)
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Mac McGinnes, a dear friend and neighbor, often sat in with me during my editing sessions. This brief but light-filled farewell was made for Mac upon...
- 1987
Alaya
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Sand, wind, and light intermingle with the emulsions. The viewer is the star.
- 2019
Apricity
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“The title Apricity refers to the warmth of the sun in winter. It is an homage to the writer Jane (Brakhage) Wodening. In speaking to her I...
- 2021
Ember Days
Ember Days02021HD
Primordial spring is in the air, all is tentative.
- 2011
Interview with Nathaniel Dorsky
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During a tour with my films in Spain last spring, I had the pleasure of being honoured with the attention of three young people who offered me the...
- 1966
Summerwind
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Dorsky’s three earliest works (made when he “entered the realm of poetic filmmaking as an active maker”), all sound films, with...
- 2022
Interval
Interval02022HD
A bouquet from those final arid days of summer.
- 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...
- 1964
Ingreen
Ingreen01964HD
Dorsky’s three earliest works (made when he “entered the realm of poetic filmmaking as an active maker”), all sound films, with...
- 2020
William
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William Brown, the son of my dear friend, Owsley Brown, is majoring in acting at the University of Southern California. During the lock down we...
- 1978
Divided Loyalties
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Warren Sonbert described Divided Loyalties as a film 'about art vs. industry and their various crossovers.' According to film critic Amy Taubin,...
- 2010
Pastourelle
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"A pastourelle and an aubade are two different forms of courtship songs from the Troubadour tradition. In this case, the film Pastourelle, a sister...
- 2020
Lamentations
Lamentations02020HD
"Lamentations is a cinematic tumble through diverse dreamscapes in a man-made world." —N.D.
- 2021
Terce
Terce02021HD
Terce is the sixth film made during the Covid crises… the yellow greens of spring at last… the beginning of a greater relaxation.
- 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...
- 2010
Music Makes a City: A Louisville Orchestra Story
Music Makes a City: A Louisville Orchestra Story62010HD
In 1948, a small, struggling, semi-professional orchestra in Louisville, Kentucky began a novel project to commission new works from contemporary...
- 2023
Caracole (for Izcali)
Caracole (for Izcali)02023HD
In the last few years I have been making a series of cinematic portraits of young filmmaking friends acting as collaborators in portraiture.There is...
- 2023
Place d'or
Place d'or02023HD
Autumn lake in San Francisco.
- 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...
- 1965
A Fall Trip Home
A Fall Trip Home01965HD
Dorsky’s three earliest works (made when he “entered the realm of poetic filmmaking as an active maker”), all sound films, with...