“Dorsky's oeuvre brandishes at present a versatility not readily available in the current avant-garde film scene. ...Hours for Jerome is formally a representational montage work, and visually a cinematographer's textbook. At the opposite extreme, Ariel never touched a Bolex, yet its three-dimensional qualities exude a dazzling and delicious stream of images. The comparatively demanding Pneuma falls in between these two mighty poles as a snowblind investigation of the emulsion process as an active agent itself.... Pictorial elegance and humor aligned to a stringent intelligence produce a body of work not stinting in passionate grace.” Warren Sonbert
Pneuma
“A study of color and black-and-white film emulsions. Since 1972, I have made an extensive collection of outdated raw stock that has been processed without being exposed, and sometimes re-photographed in closer format. Here we find a world alive with the organic deterioration of film itself; a brilliant, colorful display close to the essence of cinema in its before-image, preconceptual purity.” N. Dorsky
• A film by Nathaniel Dorsky. (1983, 31 mins, Silent (18fps), Color, Print from Filmmaker)

Hours for Jerome
A film in the diary form, made of material shot from 1966 to 1970 and edited over a three-year period ending in 1982. “Hours for Jerome is an arrangement of images, energies and illuminations from daily life. These fragments of light revolve around the four seasons: Part One is spring and summer, Part Two is fall and winter.” N. Dorsky
• A film by Nathaniel Dorsky. (1982, 50 mins, Silent (24 fps), Color, Print from Filmmaker)

Ariel
“A highly energetic and colorful display of abstract film, achieved with improvised home color processing and a physical, almost sculptural manipulation of the film surface.” N. Dorsky
• A film by Nathaniel Dorsky. (1983, 18 mins, Silent (18 fps), Color, Print from Filmmaker)