Nathaniel Dorsky Movies
- 2019

Caracole (for Cecilia)
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The first in a brief series of small personal gifts, made in celebration of the first birthday of Cecilia, the daughter of Antonella Bonfanti who for...
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- 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...
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- 2020

Lamentations
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"Lamentations is a cinematic tumble through diverse dreamscapes in a man-made world." —N.D.
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- 2006

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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 2017

Elohim
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Light in the gardens of the San Francisco Arboretum, photographed in early spring. Elohim are divine beings, the energy of light as creation.
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- 2020

Emanations
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Emanations is the third film made during the COVID crises… in this case October and November reveal small joys in a melancholic sea.
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- 2016

Lux Perpetua I
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A personal travel film shot in Oaxaca and then in France and Italy.
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- 2018

Monody
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A monody is an ode sung by a single actor in a Greek tragedy, a poem lamenting a person’s death. In this case, the sixth section of the...
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- 2017

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,...
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- 2018

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...
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- 2008

Winter
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San Francisco's winter is a season unto itself. Fleeting, rain-soaked, verdant, a brief period of shadows and renewal.
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- 2022

Naos
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A Naos is the inner room of an ancient Greek temple in which the image of the deity celebrated by that temple is depicted (usually in the form of a...
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- 2019

Canticles
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A strange autumnal in an empty world, a film of late autumn and ghostly presences.
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- 1963

Catch A Tiger
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Catch A Tiger is an educational film that shows some of the spontaneous results in music, dance and art when the nursery school child's innate...
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