Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

“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...

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

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...

During a tour with my films in Spain last spring, I had the pleasure of being honoured with the attention of three young people who offered me the...

Light in the gardens of the San Francisco Arboretum, photographed in early spring. Elohim are divine beings, the energy of light as creation.

"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...

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

“This modest little film completely turned me around. Up until that point I had been using the world to make a film, and what Jerome showed me...

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

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...

"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...

Primordial spring is in the air, all is tentative.

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