Nathaniel Dorsky Filmes

  • 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
  • 2001
    Love's Refrain

    Love's Refrain

    Love's Refrain

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    Perhaps the most delicately tactile in the series of four cinematic songs, Love's Refrain rests moment to moment on its own surface. It is a coda in...

    Love's Refrain
  • 2014
    February

    February

    February

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    "February was photographed during the first weeks of early spring in San Francisco. For me there is a haunted sense of restlessness in its form, some...

    February
  • 1978
    Divided Loyalties

    Divided Loyalties

    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,...

    Divided Loyalties
  • 2009
    Compline

    Compline

    Compline

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    "Compline is a night devotion or prayer, the last of the canonical hours, the final act in a cycle. This film is also the last film I will be able to...

    Compline
  • 2006
    Song and Solitude

    Song and Solitude

    Song and Solitude

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    Conceived and photographed with the loving collaboration of Susan Vigil during the last year of her life, Song and Solitude is balanced more toward...

    Song and Solitude
  • 2024
    Dreams Reveal a Weightless World

    Dreams Reveal a Weightless World

    Dreams Reveal a Weightless World

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    Ossuary was made up of the Kodachrome outs and trims from more than a decade of shooting and making films in Kodachrome. This new film, Dreams Reveal...

    Dreams Reveal a Weightless World
  • 2023
    Caracole (for Izcali)

    Caracole (for Izcali)

    Caracole (for Izcali)

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    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...

    Caracole (for Izcali)
  • 2022
    Caracole (for Mac)

    Caracole (for Mac)

    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...

    Caracole (for Mac)
  • 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
  • 2019
    Interlude

    Interlude

    Interlude

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

    Interlude
  • 2016
    Ossuary

    Ossuary

    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...

    Ossuary
  • 2017
    Elohim

    Elohim

    Elohim

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    Light in the gardens of the San Francisco Arboretum, photographed in early spring. Elohim are divine beings, the energy of light as creation.

    Elohim
  • 2012
    New Shores

    New Shores

    New Shores

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    NEW SHORES is a sister film to IN THE STONE HOUSE in many ways. Like the latter film, it consists of earlier footage edited in recent years. It could...

    New Shores
  • 2015
    Prelude

    Prelude

    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...

    Prelude
  • 2015
    Intimations

    Intimations

    Intimations

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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...

    Intimations
  • 2006
    Kodachrome Dailies from the Time of Song and Solitude (Reel 1)

    Kodachrome Dailies from the Time of Song and Solitude (Reel 1)

    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....

    Kodachrome Dailies from the Time of Song and Solitude (Reel 1)
  • 1965
    A Fall Trip Home

    A Fall Trip Home

    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...

    A Fall Trip Home
  • 1964
    Ingreen

    Ingreen

    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...

    Ingreen
  • 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