Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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

How often and varied we come upon ourselves in this brief life. This film of early spring is a second made in collaboration with Jacob, a young...

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

Catch A Tiger is an educational film that shows some of the spontaneous results in music, dance and art when the nursery school child's innate...

"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...

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

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

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...

"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...

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

The first in a brief series of small personal gifts, made in celebration of the first birthday of Cecilia, the daughter of Antonella Bonfanti who for...

“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...

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

Emanations is the third film made during the COVID crises… in this case October and November reveal small joys in a melancholic sea.

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

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...