Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2018
    Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle)

    Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle)

    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...

    Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle)
  • 1963
    Catch A Tiger

    Catch A Tiger

    Catch A Tiger

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    Catch A Tiger is an educational film that shows some of the spontaneous results in music, dance and art when the nursery school child's innate...

    Catch A Tiger
  • 2006
    Kodachrome Dailies from the Time of Song and Solitude (Reel 2)

    Kodachrome Dailies from the Time of Song and Solitude (Reel 2)

    Kodachrome Dailies from the Time of Song and Solitude (Reel 2)

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    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 still had the...

    Kodachrome Dailies from the Time of Song and Solitude (Reel 2)