Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

The fourth of the “cinematic songs,” followed by two new works “made by someone closer to passing on, by someone whose sense of...

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

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...

During a tour with my films in Spain last spring, I had the pleasure of being honoured with the attention of three young people who offered me the...

Autumn, photographed during the last months of the drought year, 2015, is a stately, but intimate, seasonal tome, a celebration of the poignancy and...

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...

Dark and stately is the warm, graceful tenderness of the Sarabande.

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.

Shot in San Francisco from autumn of last year through the winter solstice, Nathaniel Dorsky's Song evinces a cool, mysterious tone as it captures...

“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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

"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...

Norman’s father was a society portrait painter. After his father’s death, Norman faces the burden of inheriting his father’s...