Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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

"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...

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...

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...

Stoned people, music, movement, fields.

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

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

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...

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...

Autumn lake in San Francisco.

An exploration of the cycle of life and the inevitability of passing.

A strange autumnal in an empty world, a film of late autumn and ghostly presences.

“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...

"A pastourelle and an aubade are two different forms of courtship songs from the Troubadour tradition. In this case, the film Pastourelle, a sister...

Ossuary was made up of the Kodachrome outs and trims from more than a decade of shooting and making films in Kodachrome. This new film, Dreams Reveal...

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

Catch A Tiger is an educational film that shows some of the spontaneous results in music, dance and art when the nursery school child's innate...

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...

Primordial spring is in the air, all is tentative.

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