San Francisco International Film Festival 2018

[Chris Knipp]

The SFIFF 2018 Persistence of Vision (POV) AWARD goes to Nathaniel Dorsky

San Francisco experimental filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky is noted for his short films of striking beauty.


NATHANIEL DORSKY [THE EVENING CLASS]

The Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award honors a filmmaker whose
main body of work falls outside of the realm of narrative feature filmmaking.
For more than 50 years, Nathaniel Dorsky has been illuminating minds with
experimental, silent shorts in which light, nature, and everyday surrounds
are carefully captured and combined to prismatic, alchemical effect. Dorsky
has been honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship, screenings at MoMa, the
Tate, and Whitney Biennial, but as Max Goldberg writes in Cinema Scope,
such appellations are beside the point. “Once engrossed in Dorsky’s silent
cinema...the social world of reputation is suspended for the encompassing
and intrinsically solitary experience of beauty.” Join us for this conversation
with Nathaniel Dorsky and screening of four recent short films.

2011 Conversation with Nathaniel Dorsky by Michael Guillen in The Evening Class

2012 Article on Nathaniel Dorsky by Manohla Dargis NYTimes.