Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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...

Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle) has three sections. It is in the spirit of the early Chinese landscape colophons, a text added to the horizontal...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

"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...

“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...

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

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

"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...

"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...

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...

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...

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

"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...

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