Nathaniel Dorsky
Nathaniel Dorsky (born 1943) is an American experimental filmmaker and film editor. He is known for short films in which static shots are accumulated into a complex style of montage. His 1982 film Hours for Jerome, the first of his silent works to use a reduced frame rate, was inducted into the United States National Film Registry. Dorsky won an Emmy Award for his work on the film Gaugin in Tahiti: Search for Paradise. Early life Dorsky was born in New York City in 1943 and grew up in Millburn, New Jersey. Growing up, Dorsky learned about Buddhism through attending study groups with his father. He made 8 mm nature films inspired by Disney's True-Life Adventures series. Dorsky attended Antioch College for a year before moving to New York City to study film at NYU. Career In New York, Dorsky was exposed to the local experimental film scene and made a trilogy of films about his childhood. Shortly after premiering the first film of the trilogy, Ingreen, he met Jerome Hiler at the Film-Makers' Cooperative. Dorsky and Hiler became romantic partners and moved to rural Lake Owassa, New Jersey. Dorsky continued shooting footage after leaving New York but stopped editing