Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

  • 1986
    What Happened to Kerouac?

    What Happened to Kerouac?

    What Happened to Kerouac?

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    An investigation of the king of the Beat Generation.

    What Happened to Kerouac?
  • 2023
    Place d'or

    Place d'or

    Place d'or

    02023HD

    Autumn lake in San Francisco.

    Place d'or
  • 2022
    Caracole (for Mac)

    Caracole (for Mac)

    Caracole (for Mac)

    02022HD

    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)
  • 1999
    Wayfinders: A Pacific Odyssey

    Wayfinders: A Pacific Odyssey

    Wayfinders: A Pacific Odyssey

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

    Wayfinders: A Pacific Odyssey
  • 2004
    Monumental: David Brower's Fight for Wild America

    Monumental: David Brower's Fight for Wild America

    Monumental: David Brower's Fight for Wild America

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    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...

    Monumental: David Brower's Fight for Wild America
  • 1983
    Pneuma

    Pneuma

    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...

    Pneuma
  • 1989
    Rembrandt Laughing

    Rembrandt Laughing

    Rembrandt Laughing

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    This film is a portrait of the passage of one year in the lives of some San Francisco friends, circa 1988 (before the dot.coming of the city), a slow...

    Rembrandt Laughing
  • 2021
    Ember Days

    Ember Days

    Ember Days

    02021HD

    Primordial spring is in the air, all is tentative.

    Ember Days
  • 2002
    The Visitation

    The Visitation

    The Visitation

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    The first of two devotional songs. Part One of a set of Two Devotional Songs. “The Visitation” is a gradual unfolding, an arrival so to...

    The Visitation
  • 1974
    Look Park

    Look Park

    Look Park

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    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 location...

    Look Park
  • 2012
    April

    April

    April

    02012HD

    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...

    April
  • 2014
    Nathaniel Dorsky: An Interview

    Nathaniel Dorsky: An Interview

    Nathaniel Dorsky: An Interview

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    In his contribution to the On Art and Artists interview series, Nathaniel Dorsky (b.1943) begins by discussing his childhood love of the John Ford...

    Nathaniel Dorsky: An Interview
  • 2020
    Temple Sleep

    Temple Sleep

    Temple Sleep

    02020HD

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

    Temple Sleep
  • 2010
    Music Makes a City: A Louisville Orchestra Story

    Music Makes a City: A Louisville Orchestra Story

    Music Makes a City: A Louisville Orchestra Story

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

    Music Makes a City: A Louisville Orchestra Story
  • 1967
    Letter to D.H. In Paris

    Letter to D.H. In Paris

    Letter to D.H. In Paris

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    Stoned people, music, movement, fields.

    Letter to D.H. In Paris
  • 2000
    Arbor Vitae

    Arbor Vitae

    Arbor Vitae

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    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 the...

    Arbor Vitae
  • 2024
    Dreams Reveal a Weightless World

    Dreams Reveal a Weightless World

    Dreams Reveal a Weightless World

    02024HD

    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
  • 2017
    Ode

    Ode

    Ode

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

    Ode
  • 1987
    17 Reasons Why

    17 Reasons Why

    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...

    17 Reasons Why
  • 2023
    O Death

    O Death

    O Death

    02023HD

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

    O Death