Cinematography: Nathaniel Dorsky

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Plot It is a profound and rarified pleasure to be photographing and editing film at this most tentative of times. To do so is to behold the soulful beauty and tenderness...

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Plot 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. During that period I...

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Plot Ode, photographed in early summer, is a soft textured song of the fallen, the dissonant reds of death, seeds, and rebirth.

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Plot September is indeed, Indian summer, the halcyon swan song of earthly blessings.

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Plot Dorsky’s three earliest works (made when he “entered the realm of poetic filmmaking as an active maker”), all sound films, with dailies for two later works shot on precious Kodachrome...

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Plot Temple Sleep was photographed and edited during the initial Virus lockdown. The fly casting pools in Golden Gate Park became a mind healing place for me, a calming space of...

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Plot Emanations is the fourth film made during the Covet crises… in this case October and November reveal small joys in a melancholic sea. (Nathaniel Dorsky)

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Plot 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 description of summer, as it...

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Plot A moving institutional commission in which the filmmakers portray the New Jersey public library system with great affection.

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Plot San Francisco's winter is a season unto itself. Fleeting, rain-soaked, verdant, a brief period of shadows and renewal. (N.D.)

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Plot Lamentations is a cinematic tumble through diverse dreamscapes in a man-made world. (Nathaniel Dorsky)

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Plot Autumn, photographed during the last months of the drought year, 2015, is a stately, but intimate, seasonal tome, a celebration of the poignancy and mystery of our later years. (Nathaniel...

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Plot “For most of my life, my films have been the marriage of external circumstances as seen through the needs of my own psyche. There is no other plan as such....

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Plot 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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Plot I photographed 'Calyx' during the rather tense twenty-one days preceding my open heart surgery to replace an aortic valve and then shipped the footage off to the lab the day...

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Plot A document from the weeks that Stan Brakhage was dying of bladder cancer. Dominic Angerame, then head of Canyon Cinema, and I went up to Victoria, Canada to visit Stan....

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Plot A short portrait of a dear friend and collaborator on Devotional Cinema, Nick Hoff. (Nathaniel Dorsky)

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Plot In "17 Reasons Why", Dorsky made a 16mm film from unslit 8mm rolls, which produce four small frames for each image in two pairs of sequential frames. The side-by-side sets...

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Plot This year our mid-summer’s night was adorned with a glorious full moon. The weeks and days preceding the solstice were magically alive with crisp, cool breezes, bright, warm sunlight, and...