Nathaniel Dorsky Movies
- 2019
Canticles
Canticles02019HD
A strange autumnal in an empty world, a film of late autumn and ghostly presences.
- 2016
Other Archer
Other Archer02016HD
A short portrait of a dear friend and collaborator on Devotional Cinema, Nick Hoff.
- 2016
Death of a Poet
Death of a Poet02016HD
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,...
- 2016
Lux Perpetua I
Lux Perpetua I02016HD
A personal travel film shot in Oaxaca and then in France and Italy.
- 2004
Monumental: David Brower's Fight for Wild America
Monumental: David Brower's Fight for Wild America62004HD
From the moment David Brower first laid eyes on the beauty of the Yosemite Valley, he wanted to the fight to preserve the American wilderness for...
- 2017
Elohim
Elohim02017HD
Light in the gardens of the San Francisco Arboretum, photographed in early spring. Elohim are divine beings, the energy of light as creation.
- 1987
17 Reasons Why
17 Reasons Why01987HD
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...
- 1965
A Fall Trip Home
A Fall Trip Home01965HD
Dorsky’s three earliest works (made when he “entered the realm of poetic filmmaking as an active maker”), all sound films, with...
- 2023
Caracole (for Izcali)
Caracole (for Izcali)02023HD
In the last few years I have been making a series of cinematic portraits of young filmmaking friends acting as collaborators in portraiture.There is...
- 2022
Naos
Naos02022HD
A Naos is the inner room of an ancient Greek temple in which the image of the deity celebrated by that temple is depicted (usually in the form of a...
- 1966
Summerwind
Summerwind01966HD
Dorsky’s three earliest works (made when he “entered the realm of poetic filmmaking as an active maker”), all sound films, with...
- 2010
Pastourelle
Pastourelle62010HD
"A pastourelle and an aubade are two different forms of courtship songs from the Troubadour tradition. In this case, the film Pastourelle, a sister...
- 2018
Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle)
Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle)02018HD
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...
- 2023
Place d'or
Place d'or02023HD
Autumn lake in San Francisco.
- 2020
Temple Sleep
Temple Sleep02020HD
"Temple Sleep was photographed and edited during the initial Virus lockdown. The fly casting pools in Golden Gate Park became a mind healing place...
- 2013
Kodachrome Carl Rakosi in Golden Gate Park
Kodachrome Carl Rakosi in Golden Gate Park02013HD
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...
- 2010
Aubade
Aubade62010HD
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...
- 2009
Compline
Compline62009HD
"Compline is a night devotion or prayer, the last of the canonical hours, the final act in a cycle. This film is also the last film I will be able to...
- 2022
Caracole (for Mac)
Caracole (for Mac)02022HD
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...
- 1987
Alaya
Alaya81987HD
Sand, wind, and light intermingle with the emulsions. The viewer is the star.