Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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

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 images in this film come from an extensive collection of out-dated raw stock that has been processed without being exposed, and sometimes...

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.

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

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

"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...

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

“The title Apricity refers to the warmth of the sun in winter. It is an homage to the writer Jane (Brakhage) Wodening. In speaking to her I...

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

The Kodachrome Dailies consist of all the Kodachrome footage chosen to be worked with to make the film Song and Solitude during years 2005 and 2006....

San Francisco's winter is a season unto itself. Fleeting, rain-soaked, verdant, a brief period of shadows and renewal.

In 1948, a small, struggling, semi-professional orchestra in Louisville, Kentucky began a novel project to commission new works from contemporary...

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

“A brief lost moment lies between.” — Nathaniel Dorsky

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

"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...

“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...

Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle) has three sections. It is in the spirit of the early Chinese landscape colophons, a text added to the horizontal...