Filmes

  • 1966
    Summerwind

    Summerwind

    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...

    Summerwind
  • 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
  • 2014
    February

    February

    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...

    February
  • 2008
    Sarabande

    Sarabande

    Sarabande

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

    Sarabande
  • 1978
    Divided Loyalties

    Divided Loyalties

    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,...

    Divided Loyalties
  • 2010
    Pastourelle

    Pastourelle

    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...

    Pastourelle
  • 2023
    O Death

    O Death

    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)

    O Death
  • 2023
    Caracole (for Izcali)

    Caracole (for Izcali)

    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...

    Caracole (for Izcali)
  • 2019
    Caracole (for Cecilia)

    Caracole (for Cecilia)

    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...

    Caracole (for Cecilia)
  • 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)
  • 2022
    Naos

    Naos

    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...

    Naos
  • 2022
    Interval

    Interval

    Interval

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    A bouquet from those final arid days of summer.

    Interval
  • 2021
    Terce

    Terce

    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.

    Terce
  • 2019
    Interlude

    Interlude

    Interlude

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

    Interlude
  • 2016
    Ossuary

    Ossuary

    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...

    Ossuary
  • 2018
    Epilogue

    Epilogue

    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.

    Epilogue
  • 2017
    Elohim

    Elohim

    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.

    Elohim
  • 2004
    Threnody

    Threnody

    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...

    Threnody
  • 1964
    Ingreen

    Ingreen

    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...

    Ingreen
  • 2000
    Night Waltz: The Music of Paul Bowles

    Night Waltz: The Music of Paul Bowles

    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...

    Night Waltz: The Music of Paul Bowles