Nathaniel Dorsky

His film career began during the New American Cinema movement of the 1960s, when he met his partner Jerome Hiler.

[4] Dorsky attended Antioch College for a year before moving to New York City to study film at NYU.

[6][7] He won an Emmy Award for the film Gauguin in Tahiti: Search for Paradise which was directed by Martin Carr in 1967.

[4][8][9] Ralph Steiner hired Dorsky to edit three of his final films: A Look at Laundry, Beyond Niagara, and Look Park.

[10] Dorsky continued shooting footage during his time in New Jersey but stopped editing and releasing films for many years.

[11] Both were projectionists and programmers at the local branch of the Sussex County Area Reference Library, which commissioned them to make an industrial film.

The resulting piece Library features a minimalist soundtrack by Tony Conrad and narration by Beverly Grant.

[6] After going to Los Angeles to work on the exploitation film Revenge of the Cheerleaders, Dorsky settled in San Francisco permanently.

Lerner brought him onto the project to shoot footage that would accompany tapes of Jack Kerouac reading his own poems.

[6] In 2003 Dorsky published the short book Devotional Cinema, in which he discusses the experience of watching film and explores the link between art and health.

The reduced frame rate introduces a slight flickering effect that makes the images more abstract.

Critic P. Adams Sitney characterizes this form as a series of static shots that act as individual, monadic units, arranged together in a basic shot-cut-shot construction.