Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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

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

“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...

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

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

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...

Warren Sonbert described Divided Loyalties as a film 'about art vs. industry and their various crossovers.' According to film critic Amy Taubin,...

Conceived and photographed with the loving collaboration of Susan Vigil during the last year of her life, Song and Solitude is balanced more toward...

Catch A Tiger is an educational film that shows some of the spontaneous results in music, dance and art when the nursery school child's innate...

Stoned people, music, movement, fields.

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

A document from the weeks that Stan Brakhage was dying of bladder cancer. Dominic Angerame, then head of Canyon Cinema, and I went up to Victoria,...

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...

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

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

A dedication to Jane Wodening and an ode to the winter sun.

17 Reasons Why was photographed with a variety of semi-ancient regular 8 cameras and is projected unslit as 16mm. The four image format gives a look...

Like a memory already gone, this place of life.