Nathaniel Dorsky Movies
- 1989
Renga
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“Renga is a linked-verse form of Japanese poetry that, though still practiced today, reached its peak between the 13th and 16th centuries....
- 2023
O Death
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In the spirit of the times and my own growing older, a brief tip of the hat… (Nathaniel Dorsky)
- 1966
Summerwind
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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...
- 2018
September
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September’s ripeness, a blessing on earth, our Indian summer.
- 2010
Pastourelle
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"A pastourelle and an aubade are two different forms of courtship songs from the Troubadour tradition. In this case, the film Pastourelle, a sister...
- 2016
Death of a Poet
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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,...
- 1983
Ariel
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Ariel is a highly energetic and colorful divertissement of abstract film achieved with improvised home color processing and a physical, almost...
- 1989
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...
- 2015
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...
- 2019
Interlude
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“A brief lost moment lies between.” — Nathaniel Dorsky
- 2022
Naos
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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...
- 2015
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...
- 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...
- 2018
Monody
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A monody is an ode sung by a single actor in a Greek tragedy, a poem lamenting a person’s death. In this case, the sixth section of the...
- 2018
Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle)
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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...
- 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...
- 2020
William
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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...
- 1998
Variations
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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,"...
- 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,...
- 1987
Alaya
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Sand, wind, and light intermingle with the emulsions. The viewer is the star.