Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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...

"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...

"In most of my films I have had the burden of adding a title afterwards. Sometimes the word or words would come automatically, but more often with...

NEW SHORES is a sister film to IN THE STONE HOUSE in many ways. Like the latter film, it consists of earlier footage edited in recent years. It could...

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

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

In the spirit of the times and my own growing older, a brief tip of the hat… (Nathaniel Dorsky)

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

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

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...

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

Light in the gardens of the San Francisco Arboretum, photographed in early spring. Elohim are divine beings, the energy of light as creation.

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 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...

Triste is an indication of the level of cinema language that I have been working towards. By delicately shifting the weight and solidity of the...

Sand, wind, and light intermingle with the emulsions. The viewer is the star.

A bouquet from those final arid days of summer.

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

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...

An aubade is a poem or morning song evoking the first rays of the sun at daybreak. Often, it includes the atmosphere of lovers parting. This film is...