Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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

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

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

Triste is an indication of the level of cinema language that I have been working towards. By delicately shifting the weight and solidity of the...

Terce is the sixth film made during the Covid crises… the yellow greens of spring at last… the beginning of a greater relaxation.

"Compline is a night devotion or prayer, the last of the canonical hours, the final act in a cycle. This film is also the last film I will be able to...

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

A document from the weeks that Stan Brakhage was dying of bladder cancer. Dominic Angerame, then head of Canyon Cinema, and I went up to Victoria,...

Primordial spring is in the air, all is tentative.

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...

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...

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

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...

17 Reasons Why was photographed with a variety of semi-ancient regular 8 cameras and is projected unslit as 16mm. The four image format gives a look...

Autumn lake in San Francisco.

In the spirit of the times and my own growing older, a brief tip of the hat… (Nathaniel Dorsky)

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

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

A bouquet from those final arid days of summer.

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...