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Nathaniel Dorsky

Nathaniel Dorsky, born in New York City in 1943, is an experimental filmmaker and film editor who has been making films since 1963. He has resided in San Francisco since 1971.

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The Hotel: Hours for Jerome, by Nathaniel Dorsky

By Marcos Ortega on Fri, 12/06/2026 - 08:26

To mark the release of ‘Basin’ by Rocheman – a 21st century masterpiece of devotional art – The Hotel proudly presents a screening of Nathaniel Dorsky’s magnum opus ‘Hours for Jerome’.

Hours for Jerome is a cinematic lyric poem dedicated to Dorsky’s partner, artist Jerome Hiler, documenting aspects of their daily life in Manhattan and New Jersey. The film is entirely silent, and rooted in a centuries-old tradition of devotional art, from stained glass painting to medieval illuminated manuscripts and books of hours.
Dates:
Wednesday, July 8, 2026 - 19:00
Venue:
The Cinema Museum - London, Reino Unido
Lectures: Nathaniel Dorsky, Hollis Frampton, Robert Smithson

By Kyujae Park on Fri, 08/05/2026 - 04:28

KU Cinema and Lothringen present Lectures: Nathaniel Dorsky, Hollis Frampton, Robert Smithson, a two-day program on cinema and the lecture.
Dates:
Saturday, May 30, 2026 (All day) to Sunday, May 31, 2026 (All day)
Venue:
KU Cinema - Seoul, South Korea
Scannán Glas

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 06/04/2026 - 07:03

Join for a screening of experimental films by Margaret Tait, Miles McKane, Francien Van Everdingen, Claudio Caldini, Rose Lowder, Jennifer Reeves, Marie Menken, and Nathaniel Dorsky, presented at the International Centre for the Image on 16mm projection, alongside super8 films made in a series of collaborative workshops at the Mud Island Community Garden, building on its important social and environmental role within our neighbourhood.
Dates:
Saturday, April 18, 2026 - 16:00
Venue:
International Centre for the Image - Dublin, Ireland
Light Held In Time: The films of Jerome Hiler and Nathaniel Dorsky Part 2

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 24/03/2026 - 04:03

LIGHT HELD IN TIME
The films of Jerome Hiler and Nathaniel Dorsky
Part 2. Marginalia

Cinema Konsonant and Kino Ponrepo present the second evening of a two-part program devoted to the films of Jerome Hiler and Nathaniel Dorsky.
Dates:
Wednesday, April 1, 2026 - 19:00
Venue:
Kino Ponrepo - Praha, República Checa
Light Held In Time: The films of Jerome Hiler and Nathaniel Dorsky

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 17/02/2026 - 03:22

Cinema Konsonant and Kino Ponrepo present a two-evening program of the films of Jerome Hiler and Nathaniel Dorsky.

Nathaniel Dorsky's cinema centers on a poetic montage — relying not on a descriptive narrative but on an intuitive consonance between images. With this "polyvalent editing" technique Dorsky makes one image "resonate" with another several frames later. His films register objects of everyday life with great care and delicacy, making just a brief encounter in a poetic gap between too much meaning and no meaning at all.
Dates:
Wednesday, March 11, 2026 - 19:00
Venue:
Kino Ponrepo - Praha, República Checa
Illuminated Hours: 16mm Films By Nathaniel Dorsky & Jerome Hiler

By Marcos Ortega on Thu, 22/01/2026 - 03:27

Calling all romantics, stoners, and formalists! We’re showing a split program dedicated to Dorsky and Hiler, two legends of avant-garde cinema known for their meticulously constructed works of abstract beauty. As partners for more than six decades, they have exerted a profound influence on one another, and so it’s no surprise that they share a number of artistic sensibilities (“polyvalent” theories of montage; sensitivity to the effects of changing seasons; a reverential approach wherein “film itself” might take on “the spirit or experience of religion”).
Dates:
Sunday, February 15, 2026 - 19:00
Venue:
Sunnyside Community Center - Portland, United States
Machines in the Garden: Ecstatic Landscapes

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 21/10/2025 - 05:10

Spectrum Between presents…
MACHINES IN THE GARDEN: Ecstatic Landscapes in 16mm

As something of a sequel/companion to our water program, this collection of films showcases a range of different approaches to representing landscapes and natural forms. Filmmakers include Larry Gottheim, Stan Brakhage, Rose Lowder, James Otis, Peter Rose & Nathaniel Dorsky

Tuesday November 11th
NW Portland, OR
Venue: Special Features
Doors at 7:00 PM / Films at 8:00 PM
Dates:
Tuesday, November 11, 2025 - 20:00
Venue:
Special Features - Portland, United States
SCREENING LAV #029: FILM-EXPLORATION

By Marcos Ortega on Thu, 25/09/2025 - 08:26

“(...) The artist must be given more rope than necessary. He often hangs himself to experience, although this creature has a stiff neck. Give him time! Perhaps he is more aware of time than any type of individual. He is an explorer of his own dualities.(...)”
Stan Brakhage. Make room for the artist.
Dates:
Saturday, October 11, 2025 - 21:00
Venue:
Círculo de Bellas Artes - Madrid, Spain
Screening LAV #024: Jane's Scrapbook

By Marcos Ortega on Thu, 02/01/2025 - 07:45

"'By Brakhage’ should be understood to mean ‘by way of Stan and Jane Brakhage,’ as it does in all my films since marriage. It is coming to mean: ‘By way of Stan and Jane and all the children Brakhage», because all the discoveries which used to pass only thru the instrument of myself are coming to pass thru the sensibilities of those I love." - Metaphors on Vision, by Stan Brakhage

- APRICITY Nathaniel Dorsky
- DOG STAR MAN: PRELUDE Stan Brakhage
- JANE, LOOKING, Amy Halpern
- JANE, Stan Brakhage
Dates:
Saturday, January 11, 2025 - 20:00
Venue:
Círculo de Bellas Artes - Madrid, Spain
The Devotional Cinema of Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 24/09/2024 - 06:11

"Intermittence penetrates to the very core of our being, and film vibrates in a way that is close to this core." In his book Devotional Cinema, filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky identifies the feeling of illness or health that follows experiencing certain films, and locates as the cause a film's ability to "mirror and realign our metabolism." For example, the intermittent quality of light in film projection is not unlike our natural vision or the way we experience life (with gaps and moments of the unknown).
Dates:
Sunday, October 6, 2024 (All day)
Sunday, October 13, 2024 (All day)
Sunday, October 20, 2024 (All day)
Sunday, October 27, 2024 (All day)
Sunday, November 3, 2024 (All day)
Sunday, November 10, 2024 (All day)
Sunday, November 17, 2024 (All day)
Sunday, November 24, 2024 (All day)
Sunday, December 8, 2024 (All day)
Venue:
Ida Noyes Hall - Chicago, United States