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Raised in New York on a steady diet of Westerns and Disney True-Life Adventures, Nathaniel Dorsky started shooting 8mm movies at the age of eleven. In 1963, when he had just turned 20, he made Ingreen, a boldly symbolic psychodrama about a young man’s sexual coming of age. At that film’s premiere, he met soon-to-be fellow filmmaker Jerome Hiler, who would become his partner in life and a major inspiration for his work. (“We were filming for one another,” Hiler recently said.) In 1971 the two moved to San Francisco, where they’ve lived ever since. Around the same time, Dorsky entered a decade-long creative silence. He returned in 1982 with Hours for Jerome, a 55-minute feature compiled from footage shot between 1966 and 1970. Like all of Dorsky’s subsequent work, it’s a kind of cinematic lyric poem, entirely silent and rooted in a centuries-old tradition of devotional art (in this case, medieval illuminated manuscripts and prayer books). The rest of the Eighties found Dorsky experimenting with new forms and materials: 1987’s Alaya was made up entirely of footage of shifting sand, and 1983’s Ariel, which had a rare public screening at this year’s New York Film Festival, is a beautiful hand-processed film full of thin, tremulous vertical lines and see-sawing horizontals. It was with 1996’s Triste—edited from over 20 years’ worth of footage—that Dorsky, as he once put it, fully arrived at “the level of cinema language that I have been working towards.” Since then, he’s made 16 luminous, description-defying short films, each with their own distinct tones and shadings. In films like Compline (09), August and After (12), and his two most recent titles, Spring and Song, Dorsky creates what he’s often called a “floating world,” in which street scenes, household interiors, meadows, rivers and forests are transformed into playgrounds for light, color and shadow. In a field often dominated by frenetic cutting and/or prolonged stasis, Dorsky’s films unfurl gradually but steadily in a kind of hushed suspension. They’re often attempts to do with light and texture what, in his book Devotional Cinema, Dorsky praised Mozart for having done in key changes and melodic lines: to “wed [a] style to the human metabolism in every detail".
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1943-01-01
- event Death Date Unknown
- school Known for: Directing
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- info Birth Place New York City, New York, USA
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Interview with Nathaniel Dorsky
2011-09-16
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Library
1970-01-01
9.5
Hours for Jerome
1982-12-05
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New Shores
2012-10-06
4.7
Rembrandt Laughing
1989-02-12
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Nathaniel Dorsky: An Interview
2014-01-01
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Divided Loyalties
1978-01-01
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Letter to D.H. In Paris
1967-06-02
movie_edit Directing
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Ember Days
2021-05-31
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Look Park
1974-11-01
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Terce
2021-02-01
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Arboretum Cycle
2018-02-05
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Song and Solitude
2006-09-11
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The Return
2011-09-12
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Hours for Jerome
1982-12-05
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August and After
2012-04-16
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April
2012-01-01
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Spring
2013-09-09
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Song
2013-05-02
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Naos
2022-07-26
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Caracole (for Cecilia)
2019-10-14
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Winter
2008-01-01
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Summer
2013-12-01
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February
2014-01-01
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Compline
2009-10-10
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Aubade
2010-04-12
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December
2014-04-03
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Sarabande
2008-09-05
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Avraham
2014-10-27
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Revenge of the Cheerleaders
1976-05-01
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Arbor Vitae
2000-10-07
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Interval
2022-02-06
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Revenge of the Cheerleaders
1976-05-01
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Caracole (for Izcali)
2023-05-29
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The Visitation
2002-12-31
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Threnody
2004-12-31
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Ingreen
1964-08-20
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Prelude
2015-09-29
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Intimations
2015-09-29
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Summerwind
1966-02-04
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Kodachrome Dailies from the Time of Song and Solitude (Reel 1)
2006-01-01
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A Fall Trip Home
1965-05-04
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Love's Refrain
2001-09-09
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O Death
2023-11-28
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Triste
1996-12-05
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Triste
1996-12-05
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August and After
2012-04-16
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August and After
2012-04-16
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August and After
2012-04-16
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Library
1970-01-01
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Wayfinders: A Pacific Odyssey
1999-05-06
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The Dreamer
2016-10-03
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Autumn
2015-10-20
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Variations
1998-10-10
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Place d'or
2023-06-20
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Dialogues
2022-10-14
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Alaya
1987-12-07
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Pastourelle
2010-09-12
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Pneuma
1983-06-06
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17 Reasons Why
1987-12-07
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Ariel
1983-05-23
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Music Makes a City: A Louisville Orchestra Story
2010-09-17
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Elohim
2017-10-15
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Caracole (for Mac)
2022-05-03
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Pavane
2023-03-20
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Abaton
2017-10-15
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Night Waltz: The Music of Paul Bowles
2000-06-16
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Night Waltz: The Music of Paul Bowles
2000-06-16
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What Happened to Kerouac?
1986-04-16
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What Happened to Kerouac?
1986-04-16
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Monumental: David Brower's Fight for Wild America
2004-08-19
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Ode
2017-10-15
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Coda
2017-10-15
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Caracole (for Izcali)
2023-05-29
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Caracole (for Izcali)
2023-05-29
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O Death
2023-11-28
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O Death
2023-11-28
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September
2018-02-05
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Epilogue
2018-02-05
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Monody
2018-02-05
5
Fortune
2014-10-02
5
Revenge of the Cheerleaders
1976-05-01
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Revenge of the Cheerleaders
1976-05-01
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Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle)
2018-07-31
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Calyx
2018-12-01
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Interlude
2019-10-11
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Apricity
2019-10-12
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Ossuary
2016-01-01
5
Lux Perpetua II
2016-01-01
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Lamentations
2020-04-17
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Renga
1989-01-01
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Temple Sleep
2020-08-20
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Lux Perpetua I
2016-01-01
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Kodachrome Dailies from the Time of Song and Solitude (Reel 2)
2006-01-01
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Death of a Poet
2016-01-01
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Other Archer
2016-01-01
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Canticles
2019-12-11
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William
2020-09-17
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Emanations
2020-11-26
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Kodachrome Carl Rakosi in Golden Gate Park
2013-04-04
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Catch A Tiger
1963-01-01
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Black Sheep Boy
1995-01-01
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Fool’s Spring (Two Personal Gifts)
1967-01-01