Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

In the last few years I have been making a series of cinematic portraits of young filmmaking friends acting as collaborators in portraiture.There is...

Primordial spring is in the air, all is tentative.

A bouquet from those final arid days of summer.

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...

Emanations is the third film made during the COVID crises… in this case October and November reveal small joys in a melancholic sea.

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

Dorsky’s three earliest works (made when he “entered the realm of poetic filmmaking as an active maker”), all sound films, with...

A strange autumnal in an empty world, a film of late autumn and ghostly presences.

"Lamentations is a cinematic tumble through diverse dreamscapes in a man-made world." —N.D.

“A brief lost moment lies between.” — Nathaniel Dorsky

San Francisco's winter is a season unto itself. Fleeting, rain-soaked, verdant, a brief period of shadows and renewal.

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

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...

A personal travel film shot in Oaxaca and then in France and Italy.

September’s ripeness, a blessing on earth, our Indian summer.

"February was photographed during the first weeks of early spring in San Francisco. For me there is a haunted sense of restlessness in its form, some...

Autumn, photographed during the last months of the drought year, 2015, is a stately, but intimate, seasonal tome, a celebration of the poignancy and...

“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...

Dorsky’s three earliest works (made when he “entered the realm of poetic filmmaking as an active maker”), all sound films, with...