Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

  • 1976
    Revenge of the Cheerleaders

    Revenge of the Cheerleaders

    Revenge of the Cheerleaders

    4.61976HD

    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...

    Revenge of the Cheerleaders
  • 1995
    Black Sheep Boy

    Black Sheep Boy

    Black Sheep Boy

    6.21995HD

    The psychological and emotional motivations of gay sexual fetish, especially relating to gay male teens maturing into men and their sexual exploits.

    Black Sheep Boy
  • 2004
    Monumental: David Brower's Fight for Wild America

    Monumental: David Brower's Fight for Wild America

    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...

    Monumental: David Brower's Fight for Wild America
  • 1970
    Library

    Library

    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.

    Library
  • 1989
    Rembrandt Laughing

    Rembrandt Laughing

    Rembrandt Laughing

    4.71989HD

    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...

    Rembrandt Laughing
  • 1986
    What Happened to Kerouac?

    What Happened to Kerouac?

    What Happened to Kerouac?

    5.71986HD

    An investigation of the king of the Beat Generation.

    What Happened to Kerouac?
  • 1987
    17 Reasons Why

    17 Reasons Why

    17 Reasons Why

    01987HD

    17 Reasons Why was photographed with a variety of semi-ancient regular 8 cameras and is projected unslit as 16mm. The four image format gives a look...

    17 Reasons Why
  • 2016
    Lux Perpetua II

    Lux Perpetua II

    Lux Perpetua II

    02016HD

    “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...

    Lux Perpetua II
  • 2013
    Spring

    Spring

    Spring

    02013HD

    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
  • 2000
    Night Waltz: The Music of Paul Bowles

    Night Waltz: The Music of Paul Bowles

    Night Waltz: The Music of Paul Bowles

    6.22000HD

    Before he impressed the literary world with his books, author Paul Bowles was a music composer, collaborating with the likes of Aaron Copland and...

    Night Waltz: The Music of Paul Bowles
  • 2017
    Ode

    Ode

    Ode

    02017HD

    These four films spontaneously manifested as four stages of life: childhood, youth, maturity and old age. Elohim was photographed in early spring,...

    Ode
  • 2021
    Ember Days

    Ember Days

    Ember Days

    02021HD

    Primordial spring is in the air, all is tentative.

    Ember Days
  • 2004
    Threnody

    Threnody

    Threnody

    62004HD

    Threnody is a somber but luminous progression through a delicate articulation of earthly phenomena… an offering to a friend who died. It is...

    Threnody
  • 2011
    The Return

    The Return

    The Return

    72011HD

    Like a memory already gone, this place of life.

    The Return
  • 1967
    Letter to D.H. In Paris

    Letter to D.H. In Paris

    Letter to D.H. In Paris

    51967HD

    Stoned people, music, movement, fields.

    Letter to D.H. In Paris
  • 2015
    Prelude

    Prelude

    Prelude

    02015HD

    The fourth of the “cinematic songs,” followed by two new works “made by someone closer to passing on, by someone whose sense of...

    Prelude
  • 1974
    Look Park

    Look Park

    Look Park

    61974HD

    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...

    Look Park
  • 1996
    Triste

    Triste

    Triste

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    Triste is an indication of the level of cinema language that I have been working towards. By delicately shifting the weight and solidity of the...

    Triste
  • 1967
    Fool’s Spring (Two Personal Gifts)

    Fool’s Spring (Two Personal Gifts)

    Fool’s Spring (Two Personal Gifts)

    01967HD

    “This modest little film completely turned me around. Up until that point I had been using the world to make a film, and what Jerome showed me...

    Fool’s Spring (Two Personal Gifts)
  • 1983
    Pneuma

    Pneuma

    Pneuma

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    The images in this film come from an extensive collection of out-dated raw stock that has been processed without being exposed, and sometimes...

    Pneuma