Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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

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

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

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

After a lifetime, two mutual friends, George Kuchar and Carla Liss, passed away during the same period of time.

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

NEW SHORES is a sister film to IN THE STONE HOUSE in many ways. Like the latter film, it consists of earlier footage edited in recent years. It could...

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...

“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...

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

Before he impressed the literary world with his books, author Paul Bowles was a music composer, collaborating with the likes of Aaron Copland and...

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...

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

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

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...

In his contribution to the On Art and Artists interview series, Nathaniel Dorsky (b.1943) begins by discussing his childhood love of the John Ford...

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...

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

“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...

"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...