Nathaniel Dorsky Movies
- 1976
Revenge of the Cheerleaders
Revenge of the Cheerleaders4.61976HD
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...
- 1999
Wayfinders: A Pacific Odyssey
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This award-winning PBS documentary sweeps viewers into a seafaring adventure with a community of Polynesians, as they build traditional sailing...
- 1986
What Happened to Kerouac?
What Happened to Kerouac?5.71986HD
An investigation of the king of the Beat Generation.
- 1989
Rembrandt Laughing
Rembrandt Laughing4.71989HD
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...
- 2014
Avraham
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"In most of my films I have had the burden of adding a title afterwards. Sometimes the word or words would come automatically, but more often with...
- 1965
A Fall Trip Home
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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...
- 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...
- 2013
Spring
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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...
- 1995
Black Sheep Boy
Black Sheep Boy6.21995HD
The psychological and emotional motivations of gay sexual fetish, especially relating to gay male teens maturing into men and their sexual exploits.
- 1974
Look Park
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Look Park presents close up shots of a country stream viewed in bright sunlight. The film opens with wide shots of the park to establish the location...
- 1982
Hours for Jerome
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"This footage was shot and edited from 1966 to 1970 and then edited to completion over a two year period ending in July 1982. Hours for Jerome (as in...
- 1970
Library
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Initially titled "Books for all". A moving institutional commission in which the filmmakers lovingly portray New Jersey's public library system.
- 2021
Terce
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Terce is the sixth film made during the Covid crises… the yellow greens of spring at last… the beginning of a greater relaxation.
- 1989
Renga
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“Renga is a linked-verse form of Japanese poetry that, though still practiced today, reached its peak between the 13th and 16th centuries....
- 2006
Song and Solitude
Song and Solitude6.52006HD
Conceived and photographed with the loving collaboration of Susan Vigil during the last year of her life, Song and Solitude is balanced more toward...
- 1964
Ingreen
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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...
- 2013
Summer
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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...
- 1998
Variations
Variations6.81998HD
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,"...
- 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...
- 2021
Ember Days
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Primordial spring is in the air, all is tentative.