Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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

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...

“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...

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

"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...

The first of two devotional songs. Part One of a set of Two Devotional Songs. “The Visitation” is a gradual unfolding, an arrival so to...

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

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

Autumn lake in San Francisco.

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

Autumn, photographed during the last months of the drought year, 2015, is a stately, but intimate, seasonal tome, a celebration of the poignancy and...

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

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...

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

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...

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 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...

An aubade is a poem or morning song evoking the first rays of the sun at daybreak. Often, it includes the atmosphere of lovers parting. This film is...

"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...