Filmes
- 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...
- 2000
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...
- 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...
- 2008
Sarabande
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Dark and stately is the warm, graceful tenderness of the Sarabande.
- 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,...
- 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...
- 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)
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 2022
Interval
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A bouquet from those final arid days of summer.
- 2021
Terce
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Terce is the sixth film made during the Covid crises… the yellow greens of spring at last… the beginning of a greater relaxation.
- 2019
Interlude
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“A brief lost moment lies between.” — Nathaniel Dorsky
- 2016
Ossuary
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“For most of my life, my films have been the marriage of external circumstances as seen through the needs of my own psyche. There is no other...
- 2018
Epilogue
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Epilogue is the seventh film in the Arboretum Cycle, a descent into the dark damp earth, a period of dying.
- 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.
- 2004
Threnody
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Threnody is a somber but luminous progression through a delicate articulation of earthly phenomena… an offering to a friend who died. It is...
- 1964
Ingreen
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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...
- 2000
Night Waltz: The Music of Paul Bowles
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Before he impressed the literary world with his books, author Paul Bowles was a music composer, collaborating with the likes of Aaron Copland and...