Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

  • 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
  • 2014
    December

    December

    December

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    "I have been wanting to make a shorter film in and about a briefer period of time. December was photographed during this often turbulent month and...

    December
  • 2008
    Winter

    Winter

    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.

    Winter
  • 2013
    Spring

    Spring

    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...

    Spring
  • 2014
    Fortune

    Fortune

    Fortune

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    Norman’s father was a society portrait painter. After his father’s death, Norman faces the burden of inheriting his father’s...

    Fortune
  • 2017
    Elohim

    Elohim

    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.

    Elohim
  • 2006
    Kodachrome Dailies from the Time of Song and Solitude (Reel 1)

    Kodachrome Dailies from the Time of Song and Solitude (Reel 1)

    Kodachrome Dailies from the Time of Song and Solitude (Reel 1)

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    The Kodachrome Dailies consist of all the Kodachrome footage chosen to be worked with to make the film Song and Solitude during years 2005 and 2006....

    Kodachrome Dailies from the Time of Song and Solitude (Reel 1)
  • 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

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    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
  • 2013
    Song

    Song

    Song

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    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
  • 2012
    August and After

    August and After

    August and After

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    After a lifetime, two mutual friends, George Kuchar and Carla Liss, passed away during the same period of time.

    August and After