Nathaniel Dorsky Movies
- 1976
Revenge of the Cheerleaders
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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...
- 1977
Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives
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More than two dozen men and women of various backgrounds, ages, and races talk to the camera about being gay or lesbian. Their stories are arranged...
- 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...
- 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...
- 1986
What Happened to Kerouac?
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An investigation of the king of the Beat Generation.
- 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...
- 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....
- 2013
Kodachrome Carl Rakosi in Golden Gate Park
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Often I go out shooting with my Bolex in the park’s Arboretum. During the autumn and winter of 2003/2004 I would more than likely run into...
- 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.
- 2011
Interview with Nathaniel Dorsky
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During a tour with my films in Spain last spring, I had the pleasure of being honoured with the attention of three young people who offered me the...
- 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.
- 2004
Monumental: David Brower's Fight for Wild America
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From the moment David Brower first laid eyes on the beauty of the Yosemite Valley, he wanted to the fight to preserve the American wilderness for...
- 1987
Alaya
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Sand, wind, and light intermingle with the emulsions. The viewer is the star.
- 2017
Coda
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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,...
- 2013
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...
- 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,...
- 2018
Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle)
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Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle) has three sections. It is in the spirit of the early Chinese landscape colophons, a text added to the horizontal...
- 2010
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...
- 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...
- 1967
Abstraction
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Short film presented by the American Federation of Arts about the physics and characteristics of abstraction. Distorting physical items from science,...