Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

  • 2021
    Ember Days

    Ember Days

    Ember Days

    02021HD

    Primordial spring is in the air, all is tentative.

    Ember Days
  • 1976
    Revenge of the Cheerleaders

    Revenge of the Cheerleaders

    Revenge of the Cheerleaders

    4.41976HD

    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
  • 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

    4.81977HD

    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
  • 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
  • 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

    62004HD

    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
  • 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?
  • 1970
    Library

    Library

    Library

    01970HD

    Initially titled "Books for all". A moving institutional commission in which the filmmakers lovingly portray New Jersey's public library system.

    Library
  • 2018
    Epilogue

    Epilogue

    Epilogue

    02018HD

    Epilogue is the seventh film in the Arboretum Cycle, a descent into the dark damp earth, a period of dying.

    Epilogue
  • 2015
    Intimations

    Intimations

    Intimations

    02015HD

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

    Intimations
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2020
    Lamentations

    Lamentations

    Lamentations

    82020HD

    "Lamentations is a cinematic tumble through diverse dreamscapes in a man-made world." —N.D.

    Lamentations
  • 2012
    New Shores

    New Shores

    New Shores

    82012HD

    NEW SHORES is a sister film to IN THE STONE HOUSE in many ways. Like the latter film, it consists of earlier footage edited in recent years. It could...

    New Shores
  • 1983
    Ariel

    Ariel

    Ariel

    91983HD

    Ariel is a highly energetic and colorful divertissement of abstract film achieved with improvised home color processing and a physical, almost...

    Ariel
  • 1967
    Abstraction

    Abstraction

    Abstraction

    01967HD

    Short film presented by the American Federation of Arts about the physics and characteristics of abstraction. Distorting physical items from science,...

    Abstraction
  • 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
  • 2016
    The Dreamer

    The Dreamer

    The Dreamer

    02016HD

    This year our mid-summer’s night was adorned with a glorious full moon. The weeks and days preceding the solstice were magically alive with...

    The Dreamer
  • 2011
    The Return

    The Return

    The Return

    72011HD

    Like a memory already gone, this place of life.

    The Return
  • 1989
    Renga

    Renga

    Renga

    01989HD

    “Renga is a linked-verse form of Japanese poetry that, though still practiced today, reached its peak between the 13th and 16th centuries....

    Renga
  • 1996
    Triste

    Triste

    Triste

    71996HD

    Compilation of footage shot from 1974-96, developing on Dorsky's theory of polyvalent editing.

    Triste