Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

During a tour with my films in Spain last spring, I had the pleasure of being honoured with the attention of three young people who offered me the...

This year our mid-summer’s night was adorned with a glorious full moon. The weeks and days preceding the solstice were magically alive with...

A monody is an ode sung by a single actor in a Greek tragedy, a poem lamenting a person’s death. In this case, the sixth section of the...

Arbor Vitae is a gesture towards a cinema of pure being. Its atmosphere is haunted by the period in which it was shot, the year of 1999. Although the...

An exploration of the cycle of life and the inevitability of passing.

Often I go out shooting with my Bolex in the park’s Arboretum. During the autumn and winter of 2003/2004 I would more than likely run into...

Shot in San Francisco from autumn of last year through the winter solstice, Nathaniel Dorsky's Song evinces a cool, mysterious tone as it captures...

“For most of my life, my films have been the marriage of external circumstances as seen through the needs of my own psyche. There is no other...

"A pastourelle and an aubade are two different forms of courtship songs from the Troubadour tradition. In this case, the film Pastourelle, a sister...

Epilogue is the seventh film in the Arboretum Cycle, a descent into the dark damp earth, a period of dying.

Threnody is a somber but luminous progression through a delicate articulation of earthly phenomena… an offering to a friend who died. It is...

"Temple Sleep was photographed and edited during the initial Virus lockdown. The fly casting pools in Golden Gate Park became a mind healing place...

"I have been wanting to make a shorter film in and about a briefer period of time. December was photographed during this often turbulent month and...

Autumn lake in San Francisco.

Terce is the sixth film made during the Covid crises… the yellow greens of spring at last… the beginning of a greater relaxation.

Compilation of footage shot from 1974-96, developing on Dorsky's theory of polyvalent editing.

Look Park presents close up shots of a country stream viewed in bright sunlight. The film opens with wide shots of the park to establish the location...

The first in a brief series of small personal gifts, made in celebration of the first birthday of Cecilia, the daughter of Antonella Bonfanti who for...

A short portrait of a dear friend and collaborator on Devotional Cinema, Nick Hoff.

Dark and stately is the warm, graceful tenderness of the Sarabande.