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....
- 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
Coda
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These four films spontaneously manifested as four stages of life: childhood, youth, maturity and old age. Elohim was photographed in early spring,...
- 1967
Letter to D.H. In Paris
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Stoned people, music, movement, fields.
- 2008
Sarabande
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Dark and stately is the warm, graceful tenderness of the Sarabande.
- 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
Place d'or
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Autumn lake in San Francisco.
- 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...
- 2016
Other Archer
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A short portrait of a dear friend and collaborator on Devotional Cinema, Nick Hoff.
- 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...
- 2017
Abaton
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Abaton, a sacred place, a sanctuary for dreaming and healing.
- 2012
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...
- 2015
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...
- 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...
- 1965
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...
- 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...
- 2014
December
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"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...
- 2010
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...
- 2009
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...
- 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.