Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

Ossuary was made up of the Kodachrome outs and trims from more than a decade of shooting and making films in Kodachrome. This new film, Dreams Reveal...

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...

"Seven and a half weeks ago, I had open heart surgery...In the three weeks to go before the operation, I bought 21 rolls of film and said 'I'm going...

A bouquet from those final arid days of summer.

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

Following a period of trauma and grief, the world around me once again declared itself in the form of one of the loveliest springs I can ever...

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...

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...

Mac McGinnes, a dear friend and neighbor, often sat in with me during my editing sessions. This brief but light-filled farewell was made for Mac upon...

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

“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...

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

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...

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...

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

"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...

Nathaniel Dorsky's Spring conjures an abundant return of light and a retreat into nature so dense and rich that the film itself becomes a sort of...

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

“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...

Autumn lake in San Francisco.