Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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

"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...

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...

Autumn lake in San Francisco.

The ever-presence of death.

Sand, wind, and light intermingle with the emulsions. The viewer is the star.

"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...

Summer in San Francisco is a dry and rainless season. The film, Summer, although photographed during this period of time, is not so much a...

A personal travel film shot in Oaxaca and then in France and Italy.

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

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

"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...

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

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...

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

A bouquet from those final arid days of summer.

“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...

“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...

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

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