Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

The images in this film come from an extensive collection of out-dated raw stock that has been processed without being exposed, and sometimes...

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

In 1948, a small, struggling, semi-professional orchestra in Louisville, Kentucky began a novel project to commission new works from contemporary...

A bouquet from those final arid days of summer.

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

"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...

These four films spontaneously manifested as four stages of life: childhood, youth, maturity and old age. Elohim was photographed in early spring,...

Perhaps the most delicately tactile in the series of four cinematic songs, Love's Refrain rests moment to moment on its own surface. It is a coda in...

Autumn lake in San Francisco.

“This modest little film completely turned me around. Up until that point I had been using the world to make a film, and what Jerome showed me...

How often and varied we come upon ourselves in this brief life. This film of early spring is a second made in collaboration with Jacob, a young...

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

Abaton, a sacred place, a sanctuary for dreaming and healing.

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

The Kodachrome Dailies consist of all the Kodachrome footage chosen to be worked with to make the film Song and Solitude during years 2005 and 2006....

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

A Naos is the inner room of an ancient Greek temple in which the image of the deity celebrated by that temple is depicted (usually in the form of a...

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

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

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...