Nathaniel Dorsky Filmes
- 1964
Ingreen
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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...
- 2004
Threnody
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Threnody is a somber but luminous progression through a delicate articulation of earthly phenomena… an offering to a friend who died. It is...
- 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.
- 2008
Sarabande
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Dark and stately is the warm, graceful tenderness of the Sarabande.
- 2019
Canticles
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A strange autumnal in an empty world, a film of late autumn and ghostly presences.
- 2015
Prelude
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The fourth of the “cinematic songs,” followed by two new works “made by someone closer to passing on, by someone whose sense of...
- 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)
- 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...
- 2006
Kodachrome Dailies from the Time of Song and Solitude (Reel 1)
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The Kodachrome Dailies consist of all the Kodachrome footage chosen to be worked with to make the film Song and Solitude during years 2005 and 2006....
- 1967
Abstraction
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Short film presented by the American Federation of Arts about the physics and characteristics of abstraction. Distorting physical items from science,...
- 2010
Aubade
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An aubade is a poem or morning song evoking the first rays of the sun at daybreak. Often, it includes the atmosphere of lovers parting. This film is...
- 1967
Fool’s Spring (Two Personal Gifts)
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“This modest little film completely turned me around. Up until that point I had been using the world to make a film, and what Jerome showed me...
- 2000
Night Waltz: The Music of Paul Bowles
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Before he impressed the literary world with his books, author Paul Bowles was a music composer, collaborating with the likes of Aaron Copland and...
- 2008
Winter
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San Francisco's winter is a season unto itself. Fleeting, rain-soaked, verdant, a brief period of shadows and renewal.
- 2023
Pavane
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How often and varied we come upon ourselves in this brief life. This film of early spring is a second made in collaboration with Jacob, a young...
- 1965
A Fall Trip Home
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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...
- 2016
Ossuary
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“For most of my life, my films have been the marriage of external circumstances as seen through the needs of my own psyche. There is no other...
- 1983
Pneuma
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The images in this film come from an extensive collection of out-dated raw stock that has been processed without being exposed, and sometimes...
- 2016
Lux Perpetua I
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A personal travel film shot in Oaxaca and then in France and Italy.
- 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...