Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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...

William Brown, the son of my dear friend, Owsley Brown, is majoring in acting at the University of Southern California. During the lock down we...

"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...

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

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

The first in a brief series of small personal gifts, made in celebration of the first birthday of Cecilia, the daughter of Antonella Bonfanti who for...

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

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 short portrait of a dear friend and collaborator on Devotional Cinema, Nick Hoff.

Conceived and photographed with the loving collaboration of Susan Vigil during the last year of her life, Song and Solitude is balanced more toward...

A bouquet from those final arid days of summer.

Like a memory already gone, this place of life.

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

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

All the Kodachrome footage chosen to be worked with to make the film Song and Solitude during years 2005 and 2006. During that period I still had the...

A silent portrait of Dorsky's collaborator exploring her Aztec heritage.

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

"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...

A monody is an ode sung by a single actor in a Greek tragedy, a poem lamenting a person’s death. In this case, the sixth section of the...