Nathaniel Dorsky Movies
- 1996

Triste
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Compilation of footage shot from 1974-96, developing on Dorsky's theory of polyvalent editing.
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- 2014

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...
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- 2014

Avraham
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"In most of my films I have had the burden of adding a title afterwards. Sometimes the word or words would come automatically, but more often with...
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- 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.
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- 2019

Interlude
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“A brief lost moment lies between.” — Nathaniel Dorsky
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- 2017

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.
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- 2023

O Death
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An exploration of the cycle of life and the inevitability of passing.
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- 2023

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...
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- 2020

Temple Sleep
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"Temple Sleep was photographed and edited during the initial Virus lockdown. The fly casting pools in Golden Gate Park became a mind healing place...
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- 2018

Calyx
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"Seven and a half weeks ago, I had open heart surgery...In the three weeks to go before the operation, I bought 21 rolls of film and said 'I'm going...
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- 2012

August and After
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After a lifetime, two mutual friends, George Kuchar and Carla Liss, passed away during the same period of time.
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- 2017

Abaton
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Abaton, a sacred place, a sanctuary for dreaming and healing.
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- 2001

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...
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- 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....
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- 2011

The Return
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Like a memory already gone, this place of life.
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- 2019

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

Dialogues
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The ever-presence of death.
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- 2023

Place d'or
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Autumn lake in San Francisco.
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- 2020

Lamentations
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"Lamentations is a cinematic tumble through diverse dreamscapes in a man-made world." —N.D.
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