Nathaniel Dorsky Movies
- 1967

Fool’s Spring (Two Personal Gifts)
Fool’s Spring (Two Personal Gifts)01967HD
“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...
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- 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...
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- 2011

The Return
The Return72011HD
Like a memory already gone, this place of life.
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- 1986

What Happened to Kerouac?
What Happened to Kerouac?5.71986HD
An investigation of the king of the Beat Generation.
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- 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,...
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- 2012

August and After
August and After5.52012HD
After a lifetime, two mutual friends, George Kuchar and Carla Liss, passed away during the same period of time.
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- 2019

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...
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- 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...
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- 2023

Place d'or
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Autumn lake in San Francisco.
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- 1976

Revenge of the Cheerleaders
Revenge of the Cheerleaders4.31976HD
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...
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- 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...
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- 2000

Night Waltz: The Music of Paul Bowles
Night Waltz: The Music of Paul Bowles6.22000HD
Before he impressed the literary world with his books, author Paul Bowles was a music composer, collaborating with the likes of Aaron Copland and...
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- 2012

New Shores
New Shores82012HD
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...
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- 1998

Variations
Variations6.81998HD
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,"...
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- 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...
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- 1977

Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives
Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives4.71977HD
More than two dozen men and women of various backgrounds, ages, and races talk to the camera about being gay or lesbian. Their stories are arranged...
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- 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...
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- 2016

Death of a Poet
Death of a Poet02016HD
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,...
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- 2008

Sarabande
Sarabande62008HD
Dark and stately is the warm, graceful tenderness of the Sarabande.
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- 2010

Pastourelle
Pastourelle62010HD
"A pastourelle and an aubade are two different forms of courtship songs from the Troubadour tradition. In this case, the film Pastourelle, a sister...
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