Movies: Nathaniel Dorsky

  • 2017
    Coda

    Coda (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, the week of the Lunar New Year, the very spirit of Creation. Abaton was photographed a few weeks later ...

    Coda
  • 2013
    Summer

    Summer (2013)

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    Summer in San Francisco is a dry and rainless season. The film, Summer, although photographed during this period of time, is not so much a description of summer, as it is a cinematic response to that world of our being. N. D....

    Summer
  • 2015
    Prelude

    Prelude (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 life and sense of cinema have become inseparable in a very real way.”...

    Prelude
  • 2001
    Love's Refrain

    Love's Refrain (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 twilight, a soft-spoken conclusion to a set of cinematic songs....

    Love's Refrain
  • 2014
    Fortune

    Fortune (2014)

    Fortune

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    Norman’s father was a society portrait painter. After his father’s death, Norman faces the burden of inheriting his father’s life’s work. He struggles with conflicting feelings about a man who was a gifted artist, but a difficult and unsupportive fat...

    Fortune
  • 2014
    February

    February (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 desire for a new freedom, a fresh sense of cinema. It feels to me to be the conclusion of an explora...

    February
  • 2016
    Lux Perpetua I

    Lux Perpetua I (2016)

    Lux Perpetua I

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

    Lux Perpetua I
  • 2011
    Interview with Nathaniel Dorsky

    Interview with Nathaniel Dorsky (2011)

    Interview with Nathaniel Dorsky

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    During a tour with my films in Spain last spring, I had the pleasure of being honoured with the attention of three young people who offered me the opportunity to participate in the following interview. I was touched by their seriousness, but also per...

    Interview with Nathaniel Dorsky
  • 2021
    Ember Days

    Ember Days (2021)

    Ember Days

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    Primordial spring is in the air, all is tentative....

    Ember Days
  • 2020
    William

    William (2020)

    William

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    William Brown, the son of my dear friend, Owsley Brown, is majoring in acting at the University of Southern California. During the lock down we ventured out three times together to Golden Gate Park to enjoy playing movies, so to speak. We decided on ...

    William
  • 2012
    April

    April (2012)

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    Following a period of trauma and grief, the world around me once again declared itself in the form of one of the loveliest springs I can ever remember in San Francisco. April is intended as a companion piece for August and After, and is partly funded...

    April
  • 1987
    Alaya

    Alaya (1987)

    Alaya

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    Sand, wind, and light intermingle with the emulsions. The viewer is the star....

    Alaya
  • 2002
    The Visitation

    The Visitation (2002)

    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 speak. I felt the necessity to describe an occurrence, not one specifically of time and place, but one of revelati...

    The Visitation
  • 1966
    Summerwind

    Summerwind (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 dailies for two later works shot on precious Kodachrome stock....

    Summerwind
  • 2013
    Spring

    Spring (2013)

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    Nathaniel Dorsky's Spring conjures an abundant return of light and a retreat into nature so dense and rich that the film itself becomes a sort of wondrous garden-verdant, incandescent, with startling bursts of colour....

    Spring
  • 2014
    December

    December (2014)

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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 edited soon after. It has a purity of form which I find quite rewarding." - Nathaniel Dorsky...

    December
  • 2004
    Threnody

    Threnody (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 the second of two devotional songs, the first being The Visitation. These two films were preceeded by a series...

    Threnody
  • 2020
    Temple Sleep

    Temple Sleep (2020)

    Temple Sleep

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    "Temple Sleep was photographed and edited during the initial Virus lockdown. The fly casting pools in Golden Gate Park became a mind healing place for me, a calming space of sacredness, tempered by the fear of the on-coming unknown. A place of femini...

    Temple Sleep
  • 2019
    Interlude

    Interlude (2019)

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

    Interlude
  • 1967
    Fool’s Spring (Two Personal Gifts)

    Fool’s Spring (Two Personal Gifts) (1967)

    Fool’s Spring (Two Personal Gifts)

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    “This modest little film completely turned me around. Up until that point I had been using the world to make a film, and what Jerome showed me was that the world itself, or life itself, could be the language of a film. That a film could be inside out...

    Fool’s Spring (Two Personal Gifts)