Cinematography: Nathaniel Dorsky
The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Nathaniel Dorsky. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.
Pastourelle (S)
2010 · Documentary · 17 min. · United States
Direction Nathaniel Dorsky
Plot A pastourelle and an aubade are two different forms of courtship songs from the Troubadour tradition. In this case, the film Pastourelle, a sister film to Aubade, is in the...
8.6
24 votes
8.6
24 votes
Threnody (S)
2004 · Documentary · 25 min. · United States
Direction Nathaniel Dorsky
Plot Threnody is a somber but luminous progression through a delicate articulation of earthly phenomena… an offering to a friend who died. It is the second of two devotional songs, the...
8.3
28 votes
8.3
28 votes
Alaya
1987 · Documentary · 28 min. · United States
Direction Nathaniel Dorsky
Plot "Alaya manages a perfection of ‘musical’ light across a space of time greater in length than would seem possible... and with minimal means of line and tone. After about three...
8.3
35 votes
8.3
35 votes
Compline (S)
2009 · Documentary · 19 min. · United States
Direction Nathaniel Dorsky
Plot Compline is a night devotion or prayer, the last of the canonical hours, the final act in a cycle. This film is also the last film I will be able...
8.3
27 votes
8.3
27 votes
Sarabande (S)
2008 · Documentary · 15 min. · United States
Direction Nathaniel Dorsky
Plot Dark and stately is the warm, graceful tenderness of the Sarabande. (N.D.)
8.0
24 votes
8.0
24 votes
August and After (S)
2012 · Documentary · 19 min. · United States
Direction Nathaniel Dorsky
Plot Nathaniel Dorsky's August and After is dedicated to two recently departed friends, legendary filmmaker George Kuchar and actress Carla Liss. The film shows them vibrantly, resiliently alive shortly before their...
7.9
48 votes
7.9
48 votes
Variations (S)
1998 · Documentary · 24 min. · United States
Direction Nathaniel Dorsky
Plot Variations blossomed forth while shooting additional material for Triste. What tender chaos, what current of luminous rhymes might cinema reveal unbridled from the daytime word? During the Bronze Age a...
7.9
74 votes
7.9
74 votes
The Return
2011 · Documentary · 27 min. · United States
Direction Nathaniel Dorsky
Plot Dorsky delves deep into multiple (under)worlds, sometimes uncanny and surreal, reflected and refracted through various natural and man-made obfuscations like grids, glass, water and brush.
7.7
41 votes
7.7
41 votes
Elohim
2017 · Documentary · 31 min. · United States
Direction Nathaniel Dorsky
Plot Elohim was photographed in early spring, the week of the lunar new year, the very spirit of creation.
7.6
28 votes
7.6
28 votes
Aubade (S)
2010 · Documentary · 12 min. · United States
Direction Nathaniel Dorsky
Plot An aubade is a poem or morning song evoking the first rays of the sun at daybreak. Often, it includes the atmosphere of lovers parting. This film is my first...
7.6
60 votes
7.6
60 votes
Pneuma (S)
1983 · Documentary · 28 min. · United States
Direction Nathaniel Dorsky
Plot In Stoic philosophy “pneuma” is the “soul” or fiery wind permeating the body, and at death survives the body but as impersonal energy. Similarly, the “world pneuma” permeates the details...
7.2
23 votes
7.2
23 votes
Catch A Tiger (S)
1963 · Documentary · 23 min. · United States
Direction Nathaniel Dorsky
Plot "Catch A Tiger, which showed the activity in two nursery schools that experimented with allowing four year olds to improvise in music and visual constructions and assemblages. I was inspired...
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O Death (S)
2023 · Documentary · 6 min. · United States
Direction Nathaniel Dorsky
Plot In the spirit of the times and my own growing older, a brief tip of the hat… (Nathaniel Dorsky)
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Ariel (S)
1983 · Documentary · 16 min. · United States
Direction Nathaniel Dorsky
Plot Ariel is a highly energetic and colorful divertissement of abstract film achieved with improvised home color processing and a physical, almost sculptural manipulation of the film surface.
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Terce (S)
2021 · Documentary · 12 min. · United States
Direction Nathaniel Dorsky
Plot Terce is the sixth film made during the Covid crises… the yellow greens of spring at last… the beginning of a greater relaxation. (Nathaniel Dorsky)
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Monody (S)
2017 · Documentary · 16 min. · United States
Direction Nathaniel Dorsky
Plot Monody, shot in the fading autumnal glory is an energized declaration of the end.
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Abaton (S)
2017 · Documentary · 19 min. · United States
Direction Nathaniel Dorsky
Plot Abaton was photographed a few weeks later in the full ripeness of spring, the very purity and intoxication of passion.
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February (S)
2014 · Documentary · 17 min. · United States
Direction Nathaniel Dorsky
Plot "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 desire for a new...
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