Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

Autumn lake in San Francisco.

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...

A bouquet from those final arid days of summer.

"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...

Nathaniel Dorsky's Spring conjures an abundant return of light and a retreat into nature so dense and rich that the film itself becomes a sort of...

"Seven and a half weeks ago, I had open heart surgery...In the three weeks to go before the operation, I bought 21 rolls of film and said 'I'm going...

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

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

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...

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

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

Mac McGinnes, a dear friend and neighbor, often sat in with me during my editing sessions. This brief but light-filled farewell was made for Mac upon...

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

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

Projecting films at the Film-Makers' Cinematheque on Bruce Conner, Andy Warhol and Harry Smith