Nathaniel Dorsky

There's shakin', quakin' and plenty of booty to be enjoyed when the perky gals from Aloha High School shimmy their groove things in this red-hot se...

01 de mai. de 1976

From the moment David Brower first laid eyes on the beauty of the Yosemite Valley, he wanted to the fight to preserve the American wilderness for f...

19 de ago. de 2004

"This footage was shot and edited from 1966 to 1970 and then edited to completion over a two year period ending in July 1982. Hours for Jerome (as ...

05 de dez. de 1982

The psychological and emotional motivations of gay sexual fetish, especially relating to gay male teens maturing into men and their sexual exploits.

01 de jan. de 1995

Look Park presents close up shots of a country stream viewed in bright sunlight. The film opens with wide shots of the park to establish the locati...

01 de nov. de 1974

This award-winning PBS documentary sweeps viewers into a seafaring adventure with a community of Polynesians, as they build traditional sailing can...

06 de mai. de 1999

An investigation of the king of the Beat Generation.

16 de abr. de 1986

Initially titled "Books for all". A moving institutional commission in which the filmmakers lovingly portray New Jersey's public library system.

01 de jan. de 1970

The fourth of the “cinematic songs,” followed by two new works “made by someone closer to passing on, by someone whose sense of life and sense of c...

29 de set. de 2015

Ariel is a highly energetic and colorful divertissement of abstract film achieved with improvised home color processing and a physical, almost scul...

23 de mai. de 1983

"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 ...

10 de out. de 2009

Threnody is a somber but luminous progression through a delicate articulation of earthly phenomena… an offering to a friend who died. It is the sec...

31 de dez. de 2004

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...

26 de jul. de 2022

Variations is a 1998 American short silent avant-garde film directed by Nathaniel Dorsky. It is the second film in a set of "Four Cinematic Songs,"...

10 de out. de 1998

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 i...

12 de abr. de 2010

Before he impressed the literary world with his books, author Paul Bowles was a music composer, collaborating with the likes of Aaron Copland and V...

16 de jun. de 2000

"A pastourelle and an aubade are two different forms of courtship songs from the Troubadour tradition. In this case, the film Pastourelle, a sister...

12 de set. de 2010

The ever-presence of death.

14 de out. de 2022

“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 mused, ...

12 de out. de 2019

Terce is the sixth film made during the Covid crises… the yellow greens of spring at last… the beginning of a greater relaxation.

01 de fev. de 2021

In 1948, a small, struggling, semi-professional orchestra in Louisville, Kentucky began a novel project to commission new works from contemporary c...

17 de set. de 2010

A bouquet from those final arid days of summer.

06 de fev. de 2022

These four films spontaneously manifested as four stages of life: childhood, youth, maturity and old age. Elohim was photographed in early spring, ...

15 de out. de 2017

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

07 de dez. de 1987

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

11 de set. de 2006

After a lifetime, two mutual friends, George Kuchar and Carla Liss, passed away during the same period of time.

16 de abr. de 2012

In the spirit of the times and my own growing older, a brief tip of the hat… (Nathaniel Dorsky)

28 de nov. de 2023

Dorsky’s three earliest works (made when he “entered the realm of poetic filmmaking as an active maker”), all sound films, with dailies for two lat...

04 de fev. de 1966

Autumn lake in San Francisco.

20 de jun. de 2023

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...

31 de jul. de 2018

Emanations is the third film made during the COVID crises… in this case October and November reveal small joys in a melancholic sea.

26 de nov. de 2020

Primordial spring is in the air, all is tentative.

31 de mai. de 2021

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 loo...

07 de dez. de 1987

Dorsky’s three earliest works (made when he “entered the realm of poetic filmmaking as an active maker”), all sound films, with dailies for two lat...

20 de ago. de 1964

San Francisco's winter is a season unto itself. Fleeting, rain-soaked, verdant, a brief period of shadows and renewal.

01 de jan. de 2008

September’s ripeness, a blessing on earth, our Indian summer.

05 de fev. de 2018

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 descript...

01 de dez. de 2013

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

11 de out. de 2019

"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, so...

01 de jan. de 2014

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 ven...

17 de set. de 2020

A strange autumnal in an empty world, a film of late autumn and ghostly presences.

11 de dez. de 2019

"Temple Sleep was photographed and edited during the initial Virus lockdown. The fly casting pools in Golden Gate Park became a mind healing place ...

20 de ago. de 2020

Following a period of trauma and grief, the world around me once again declared itself in the form of one of the loveliest springs I can ever remem...

01 de jan. de 2012

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

15 de out. de 2017

Arbor Vitae is a gesture towards a cinema of pure being. Its atmosphere is haunted by the period in which it was shot, the year of 1999. Although t...

07 de out. de 2000

“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 was ...

01 de jan. de 1967

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 ima...

05 de dez. de 1996