Signals: Nathaniel Dorsky
Overview of films
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Hours for Jerome
Convincing return to filmmaking after more than 10 years’ absence is a cinematic succession of the seasons inspired by the Medieval Book of Hours.
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Pneuma
Painstaking materials research using various pieces of unexposed 16mm film stock. A meditative elegy of light.
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The Visitation
Medieval inspiration, the cinema lit like a church through stained-glass windows. The light descends and touches people.
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Threnody
An offering to influential filmmaker Stan Brakhage, made shortly before his death, which gives him a final look at earth.
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Winter
The darkest season. Winter shares a deeply felt connection with the city where Dorsky shot most of his films: San Francisco.
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A Fall Trip Home
Made by a then twenty-year-old Dorsky seeking form and self-awareness. In contrast to the other works selected, it has a small soundtrack.
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Sarabande
Sarabande has an enchanting rhythm alternating distance and detail with a melody dictated by nature.
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Aubade
Aubade is like the start of a new day and marks a new step for Dorsky in his contact with celluloid.
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Song and Solitude
No words can describe the dark beauty of Song and Solitude. A comprehensive symphony of wonder.
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Variations
Form and content have reached their equilibrium in Variations. An influential work on transformative sleep, and a breakthrough.
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Alaya
Enchanting, minimalist film consisting solely of grains of sand, which act as hyperboles for the constituents of celluloid images: film grain.
