Nathaniel Dorsky Filmes

  • 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
  • 1967
    Abstraction

    Abstraction

    Abstraction

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    Short film presented by the American Federation of Arts about the physics and characteristics of abstraction. Distorting physical items from science,...

    Abstraction
  • 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
  • 1982
    Hours for Jerome

    Hours for Jerome

    Hours for Jerome

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    The recording of the daily events of Dorsky and his partner, artist Jerome Hiler, around Lake Owassa in New Jersey and in Manhattan. The two parts of...

    Hours for Jerome
  • 1999
    Wayfinders: A Pacific Odyssey

    Wayfinders: A Pacific Odyssey

    Wayfinders: A Pacific Odyssey

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    This award-winning PBS documentary sweeps viewers into a seafaring adventure with a community of Polynesians, as they build traditional sailing...

    Wayfinders: A Pacific Odyssey
  • 1995
    Black Sheep Boy

    Black Sheep Boy

    Black Sheep Boy

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    The psychological and emotional motivations of gay sexual fetish, especially relating to gay male teens maturing into men and their sexual exploits.

    Black Sheep Boy
  • 1970
    Library

    Library

    Library

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    Initially titled "Books for all". A moving institutional commission in which the filmmakers lovingly portray New Jersey's public library system.

    Library
  • 2017
    Ode

    Ode

    Ode

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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,...

    Ode
  • 1989
    Rembrandt Laughing

    Rembrandt Laughing

    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...

    Rembrandt Laughing
  • 2006
    Song and Solitude

    Song and Solitude

    Song and Solitude

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    Conceived and photographed with the loving collaboration of Susan Vigil during the last year of her life, Song and Solitude is balanced more toward...

    Song and Solitude
  • 2016
    Lux Perpetua I

    Lux Perpetua I

    Lux Perpetua I

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    A personal travel film shot in Oaxaca and then in France and Italy.

    Lux Perpetua I
  • 2004
    Monumental: David Brower's Fight for Wild America

    Monumental: David Brower's Fight for Wild America

    Monumental: David Brower's Fight for Wild America

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    From the moment David Brower first laid eyes on the beauty of the Yosemite Valley, he wanted to the fight to preserve the American wilderness for...

    Monumental: David Brower's Fight for Wild America
  • 2002
    The Visitation

    The Visitation

    The Visitation

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    The first of two devotional songs. Part One of a set of Two Devotional Songs. “The Visitation” is a gradual unfolding, an arrival so to...

    The Visitation
  • 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
  • 2021
    Ember Days

    Ember Days

    Ember Days

    02021HD

    Primordial spring is in the air, all is tentative.

    Ember Days
  • 1983
    Pneuma

    Pneuma

    Pneuma

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    The images in this film come from an extensive collection of out-dated raw stock that has been processed without being exposed, and sometimes...

    Pneuma
  • 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
  • 2020
    Temple Sleep

    Temple Sleep

    Temple Sleep

    02020HD

    "Temple Sleep was photographed and edited during the initial Virus lockdown. The fly casting pools in Golden Gate Park became a mind healing place...

    Temple Sleep
  • 2023
    O Death

    O Death

    O Death

    02023HD

    In the spirit of the times and my own growing older, a brief tip of the hat… (Nathaniel Dorsky)

    O Death