Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

  • 1968
    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    7.3131968HD

    Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas’s first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life in 1960s New York, interweaving moments with family,...

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
  • 1976
    Revenge of the Cheerleaders

    Revenge of the Cheerleaders

    Revenge of the Cheerleaders

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    The frisky cheerleading team at the anarchic Aloha High sets out to foil the plans of their local school board president, after he attempts to shut...

    Revenge of the Cheerleaders
  • 1994
    The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg

    The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg

    The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg

    5.7221994HD

    Visionary, radical, spiritual seeker, renowned poet, founding member of a major literary movement, champion of human rights, Buddhist, political...

    The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
  • 1967
    Abstraction

    Abstraction

    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,...

    Abstraction
  • 1968
    Holiday

    Holiday

    Holiday

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    Experimental short subject preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with Estate Project for Artists with AIDS, in 1998.

    Holiday
  • 1972
    Carriage Trade

    Carriage Trade

    Carriage Trade

    7.41972HD

    Carriage Trade was an evolving work-in-progress, and this 61-minute version is the definitive form in which Sonbert realized it, preserved intact...

    Carriage Trade
  • 1977
    Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives

    Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives

    Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives

    4.9551977HD

    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...

    Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives
  • 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
  • 1999
    Wayfinders: A Pacific Odyssey

    Wayfinders: A Pacific Odyssey

    Wayfinders: A Pacific Odyssey

    01999HD

    This award-winning PBS documentary sweeps viewers into a seafaring adventure with a community of Polynesians, as they build traditional sailing...

    Wayfinders: A Pacific Odyssey
  • 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

    62010HD

    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
  • 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

    6.52004HD

    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
  • 1982
    Hours for Jerome

    Hours for Jerome

    Hours for Jerome

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    The recording of the daily events of Dorsky and his partner, artist Jerome Hiler, around Lake Owassa in New Jersey and in Manhattan. The two parts of...

    Hours for Jerome
  • 1986
    What Happened to Kerouac?

    What Happened to Kerouac?

    What Happened to Kerouac?

    6.1251986HD

    An investigation of the king of the Beat Generation.

    What Happened to Kerouac?
  • 1989
    Rembrandt Laughing

    Rembrandt Laughing

    Rembrandt Laughing

    51989HD

    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
  • 1987
    17 Reasons Why

    17 Reasons Why

    17 Reasons Why

    61987HD

    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
  • 1978
    Divided Loyalties

    Divided Loyalties

    Divided Loyalties

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    Warren Sonbert described Divided Loyalties as a film 'about art vs. industry and their various crossovers.' According to film critic Amy Taubin,...

    Divided Loyalties
  • 2000
    Night Waltz: The Music of Paul Bowles

    Night Waltz: The Music of Paul Bowles

    Night Waltz: The Music of Paul Bowles

    6.52000HD

    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
  • 2000
    Arbor Vitae

    Arbor Vitae

    Arbor Vitae

    62000HD

    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
  • 1995
    Black Sheep Boy

    Black Sheep Boy

    Black Sheep Boy

    6.1821995HD

    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
  • 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