Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

  • 1989
    Renga

    Renga

    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....

    Renga
  • 2018
    Epilogue

    Epilogue

    Epilogue

    02018HD

    Epilogue is the seventh film in the Arboretum Cycle, a descent into the dark damp earth, a period of dying.

    Epilogue
  • 2017
    Coda

    Coda

    Coda

    02017HD

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

    Coda
  • 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
  • 2008
    Sarabande

    Sarabande

    Sarabande

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

    Sarabande
  • 2010
    Pastourelle

    Pastourelle

    Pastourelle

    62010HD

    "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
    Place d'or

    Place d'or

    Place d'or

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    Autumn lake in San Francisco.

    Place d'or
  • 2022
    Naos

    Naos

    Naos

    02022HD

    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
  • 2016
    Other Archer

    Other Archer

    Other Archer

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    A short portrait of a dear friend and collaborator on Devotional Cinema, Nick Hoff.

    Other Archer
  • 2018
    Calyx

    Calyx

    Calyx

    02018HD

    "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...

    Calyx
  • 2017
    Abaton

    Abaton

    Abaton

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

    Abaton
  • 2012
    New Shores

    New Shores

    New Shores

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    NEW SHORES is a sister film to IN THE STONE HOUSE in many ways. Like the latter film, it consists of earlier footage edited in recent years. It could...

    New Shores
  • 2015
    Prelude

    Prelude

    Prelude

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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...

    Prelude
  • 2001
    Love's Refrain

    Love's Refrain

    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...

    Love's Refrain
  • 1965
    A Fall Trip Home

    A Fall Trip Home

    A Fall Trip Home

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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...

    A Fall Trip Home
  • 2014
    February

    February

    February

    02014HD

    "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
  • 2014
    December

    December

    December

    02014HD

    "I have been wanting to make a shorter film in and about a briefer period of time. December was photographed during this often turbulent month and...

    December
  • 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
  • 2009
    Compline

    Compline

    Compline

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    "Compline is a night devotion or prayer, the last of the canonical hours, the final act in a cycle. This film is also the last film I will be able to...

    Compline
  • 2012
    August and After

    August and After

    August and After

    5.52012HD

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

    August and After