NATHANIEL DORSKY
This is a draft essay on Hours for Jerome, from 1982.
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Nathaniel Dorsky was born in New York City, in 1943. He is an experimental filmmaker and film editor who has been making films since 1963. He has lived in San Francisco since 1971. His films have been screened at museums, universities, and festivals around the United States and Europe, and he frequently exhibits new work at the New York Film Festival’s VIEWS FROM THE AVANT-GARDE and Toronto International Film Festival’s WAVELENGTHS program. Dorsky’s films were screened as part the 2012 Whitney Biennial. In 2015, the New York Film Festival honored his work with a thirty four film complete retrospective at Lincoln Center. He has received numerous awards and recognitions including a Guggenheim Fellowship and grants from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the LEF Foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and the California Arts Council.