Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

“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...

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

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

A bouquet from those final arid days of summer.

NEW SHORES is a sister film to IN THE STONE HOUSE in many ways. Like the latter film, it consists of earlier footage edited in recent years. It could...

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...

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

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...

Ariel is a highly energetic and colorful divertissement of abstract film achieved with improvised home color processing and a physical, almost...

"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...

Autumn lake in San Francisco.

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

This year our mid-summer’s night was adorned with a glorious full moon. The weeks and days preceding the solstice were magically alive with...

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

The ever-presence of death.

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

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

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

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