Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

A bouquet from those final arid days of summer.

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

Stoned people, music, movement, fields.

Emanations is the third film made during the COVID crises… in this case October and November reveal small joys in a melancholic sea.

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

These four films spontaneously manifested as four stages of life: childhood, youth, maturity and old age. Elohim was photographed in early spring,...

“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...

Like a memory already gone, this place of life.

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...

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...

Ariel is a highly energetic and colorful divertissement of abstract film achieved with improvised home color processing and a physical, almost...

"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...