Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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...

Autumn lake in San Francisco.

“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...

"In most of my films I have had the burden of adding a title afterwards. Sometimes the word or words would come automatically, but more often with...

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

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

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....

Nathaniel Dorsky's Spring conjures an abundant return of light and a retreat into nature so dense and rich that the film itself becomes a sort of...

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...

During a tour with my films in Spain last spring, I had the pleasure of being honoured with the attention of three young people who offered me the...

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

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

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...

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...

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