Nathaniel Dorsky

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1943-01-01 (82 years old)

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Nathaniel Dorsky

Biography

Raised in New York on a steady diet of Westerns and Disney True-Life Adventures, Nathaniel Dorsky started shooting 8mm movies at the age of eleven. In 1963, when he had just turned 20, he made Ingreen, a boldly symbolic psychodrama about a young man’s sexual coming of age. At that film’s premiere, he met soon-to-be fellow filmmaker Jerome Hiler, who would become his partner in life and a major inspiration for his work. (“We were filming for one another,” Hiler recently said.) In 1971 the two moved to San Francisco, where they’ve lived ever since. Around the same time, Dorsky entered a decade-long creative silence. He returned in 1982 with Hou...

Production

2021

Ember Days

as Director

1974

Look Park

as Editor

2021

Terce

as Director

2018

Arboretum Cycle

as Director

2006

2011

The Return

as Director

1982

Hours for Jerome

as Director

2012

August and After

as Director

2012

April

as Director

2013

Spring

as Director

2013

Song

as Director

2022

Naos

as Director

2019

2008

Winter

as Director

2013

Summer

as Director

2014

February

as Director

2009

Compline

as Director

2010

Aubade

as Director

2014

December

as Director

2008

Sarabande

as Director

2014

Avraham

as Director

2000

Arbor Vitae

as Director

2022

Interval

as Director

1976

Revenge of the Cheerleaders

as Director of Photography

2023

2002

The Visitation

as Director

2004

Threnody

as Director

1964

Ingreen

as Director

2015

Prelude

as Director

2015

Intimations

as Director

1966

Summerwind

as Director

1965

A Fall Trip Home

as Director

2001

Love's Refrain

as Director

2023

O Death

as Director

1996

Triste

as Director

1996

Triste

as Writer

2012

August and After

as Producer

2012

2012

August and After

as Director of Photography

1970

Library

as Director

2016

The Dreamer

as Director

2015

Autumn

as Director

1998

Variations

as Director

2023

Place d'or

as Director

2022

Dialogues

as Director

1987

Alaya

as Director

2010

Pastourelle

as Director

1983

Pneuma

as Director

1987

17 Reasons Why

as Director

1983

Ariel

as Director

2017

Elohim

as Director

2022

2023

Pavane

as Director

2017

Abaton

as Director

1986

2017

Ode

as Director

2017

Coda

as Director

2023

Caracole (for Izcali)

as Director of Photography

2023

O Death

as Director of Photography

2023

O Death

as Editor

2018

September

as Director

2018

Epilogue

as Director

2018

Monody

as Director

2014

Fortune

as Editorial Production Assistant

2018

Calyx

as Director

2019

Interlude

as Director

2019

Apricity

as Director

2016

Ossuary

as Director

2016

Lux Perpetua II

as Director

2020

Lamentations

as Director

1989

Renga

as Director

2020

Temple Sleep

as Director

2016

Lux Perpetua I

as Director

2016

Death of a Poet

as Director

2016

Other Archer

as Director

2019

Canticles

as Director

2020

William

as Director

2020

Emanations

as Director

1963

Catch A Tiger

as Director

1995

Black Sheep Boy

as Associate Editor

2024

Dreams Reveal a Weightless World

as Director of Photography

1967

Abstraction

as Editor

1967

Abstraction

as Director of Photography

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