Nathaniel Dorsky Filmes

  • 1999
    Wayfinders: A Pacific Odyssey

    Wayfinders: A Pacific Odyssey

    Wayfinders: A Pacific Odyssey

    01999HD

    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
  • 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

    62010HD

    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
  • 1976
    Revenge of the Cheerleaders

    Revenge of the Cheerleaders

    Revenge of the Cheerleaders

    4.41976HD

    There's shakin', quakin' and plenty of booty to be enjoyed when the perky gals from Aloha High School shimmy their groove things in this red-hot...

    Revenge of the Cheerleaders
  • 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
  • 1989
    Rembrandt Laughing

    Rembrandt Laughing

    Rembrandt Laughing

    4.71989HD

    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
  • 1977
    Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives

    Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives

    Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives

    4.81977HD

    More than two dozen men and women of various backgrounds, ages, and races talk to the camera about being gay or lesbian. Their stories are arranged...

    Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives
  • 2018
    Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle)

    Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle)

    Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle)

    02018HD

    Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle) has three sections. It is in the spirit of the early Chinese landscape colophons, a text added to the horizontal...

    Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle)
  • 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
  • 1998
    Variations

    Variations

    Variations

    6.81998HD

    Variations is a 1998 American short silent avant-garde film directed by Nathaniel Dorsky. It is the second film in a set of "Four Cinematic Songs,"...

    Variations
  • 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
  • 2020
    Lamentations

    Lamentations

    Lamentations

    82020HD

    "Lamentations is a cinematic tumble through diverse dreamscapes in a man-made world." —N.D.

    Lamentations
  • 1996
    Triste

    Triste

    Triste

    71996HD

    Compilation of footage shot from 1974-96, developing on Dorsky's theory of polyvalent editing.

    Triste
  • 2009
    Compline

    Compline

    Compline

    62009HD

    "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
  • 2013
    Song

    Song

    Song

    02013HD

    Shot in San Francisco from autumn of last year through the winter solstice, Nathaniel Dorsky's Song evinces a cool, mysterious tone as it captures...

    Song
  • 2019
    Apricity

    Apricity

    Apricity

    72019HD

    A dedication to Jane Wodening and an ode to the winter sun.

    Apricity
  • 1982
    Hours for Jerome

    Hours for Jerome

    Hours for Jerome

    7.81982HD

    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
  • 1995
    Black Sheep Boy

    Black Sheep Boy

    Black Sheep Boy

    6.21995HD

    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
  • 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

    62004HD

    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
  • 2012
    New Shores

    New Shores

    New Shores

    82012HD

    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
  • 2013
    Spring

    Spring

    Spring

    02013HD

    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...

    Spring