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.
Surveying the experimental cinematic practice of the artist through film stills created from the 1960s-2010s, the online exhibition coincides with his newly published limited edition book of photographs, ECLOGUES: Letters and Correspondence, each signed and numbered by the artist and published by Peter Blum Edition.
Dates:
Thursday, June 11, 2020 (All day) to Thursday, July 9, 2020 (All day)
“This past summer I began to look through my album of personal snapshots, ones that I had sent out to accompany my email correspondences over the last decade. I was thinking of the possibility of doing some test printings of these images for a potential show when it was suggested to me by my printer, Nina Zurier, that a small book might be a more appropriate context for this project.
Xcèntric Cinema. Conversations on the creative process and the filmic vision, edited by Gonzalo de Lucas, takes us into the workshop of the filmmaker, that personal space in which film creators think about their working methods and aesthetic ideas. A constellation of images, experiences, notes and inspirational ideas from some great filmmakers that serve as a notebook of creative projects and which help to expand our imaginative field.
P. Adams Sitney | A Half-Century of Showing Avant-garde Cinema | Conference and Screening with commentary
Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola has suggested that the specialist should choose an ideal programme that might illustrate his 50 years as a programmer, curator, critic and spectator.
Movement as Meaning in Experimental Cinema offers sweeping and cogent arguments as to why analytic philosophers should take experimental cinema seriously as a medium for illuminating mechanisms of meaning in language. Using the analogy of the movie projector, Barnett deconstructs all communication acts into functions of interval, repetition and context. He describes how Wittgenstein's concepts of family resemblance and language games provide a dynamic perspective on the analysis of acts of reference.
06.07.17 + 07.07.17 | Brett Kashmere [plus films by Nathaniel Dorsky + Robert Breer + Nam June Paik + Lillian Schwartz + Takashi Ito + Yvonne Rainer + Will Hindle]
“Every shot is the narrative and the narrative is every shot.” from “Devotional Cinema” by Nathaniel Dorsky
Peter Blum is pleased to announce an exhibition of photographic works by Nathaniel Dorsky. Film Stills is the first exhibition of the artist’s work at Peter Blum Gallery on view at 20 West 57th Street, New York. There will be an opening reception on Thursday November 19, from 6 to 8 p.m. The exhibition runs through January 9, 2016.
Nathaniel Dorsky’s photographs extract intimate moments of observation from his acclaimed silent films. This exhibition features a suite of 30 archival pigment prints that distill the poetic spatial layering of the films. If Dorsky’s films are like a waking dream, then the film stills are a memory of that dream—a crystallization of the meditative state achieved by the moving image and an absolute value by which to measure the fleetingness of our collective existence.
Dates:
Thursday, November 19, 2015 (All day) to Saturday, January 9, 2016 (All day)
FICXLAB, the Gijón International Film Festival section devoted to experimental film & video returns next November 20-28 with a programme that combines both the work of audiovisual artists and filmmakers. Organized by LABoral, with the collaboration of Lumière Magazine this edition includes screenings of seminal works by R.Bruce Elder and Robert Nelson, as well as programmes dedicated to the work of Nathaniel Dorsky, Helga Fanderl, João Maria Gusmão & Pedro Paiva or José Val del Omar, among others.
Dates:
Friday, November 20, 2015 (All day) to Saturday, November 28, 2015 (All day)
"With a delicate and unique clarity of focus, the serenely silent 16mm films of Bay Area treasure Nathaniel Dorsky embody a mindful concern for the epiphanies of each passing moment and a rare sensitivity to the ephemeralities of light. In celebration of the Bay Area premiere of four new films—each deeply concerned the delicacy and sorrow of being alive in the world—we present three silent evenings (and one afternoon) of this master filmmaker’s most recent works." — Steve Polta
Turbidus Film and Fylkingen present Nathaniel Dorsky
The films of Nathaniel Dorsky blend a beauteous celebration of the sensual world with a deep sense of introspection and solitude. They are occasions for reflection and meditation, on light, landscape, time and the motions of consciousness. Their luminous photography emphasizes the elemental frisson between solidity and luminosity, between spirit and matter, while his uniquely developed montage permits a fluid and flowing experience of time. Dorsky’s films reveal the mystery behind everyday existence, providing intimations of eternity.
