Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

  • 2018
    Calyx

    Calyx

    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...

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

    Fool’s Spring (Two Personal Gifts)

    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...

    Fool’s Spring (Two Personal Gifts)
  • 2023
    O Death

    O Death

    O Death

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

    O Death
  • 2019
    Apricity

    Apricity

    Apricity

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

    Apricity
  • 2008
    Sarabande

    Sarabande

    Sarabande

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    Dark and stately is the warm, graceful tenderness of the Sarabande.

    Sarabande
  • 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
  • 2023
    Pavane

    Pavane

    Pavane

    02023HD

    How often and varied we come upon ourselves in this brief life. This film of early spring is a second made in collaboration with Jacob, a young...

    Pavane
  • 2016
    Ossuary

    Ossuary

    Ossuary

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    “For most of my life, my films have been the marriage of external circumstances as seen through the needs of my own psyche. There is no other...

    Ossuary
  • 2018
    September

    September

    September

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    September’s ripeness, a blessing on earth, our Indian summer.

    September
  • 2008
    Winter

    Winter

    Winter

    02008HD

    San Francisco's winter is a season unto itself. Fleeting, rain-soaked, verdant, a brief period of shadows and renewal.

    Winter