Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

September’s ripeness, a blessing on earth, our Indian summer.

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

In his contribution to the On Art and Artists interview series, Nathaniel Dorsky (b.1943) begins by discussing his childhood love of the John Ford...

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

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...

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

Following a period of trauma and grief, the world around me once again declared itself in the form of one of the loveliest springs I can ever...

After a lifetime, two mutual friends, George Kuchar and Carla Liss, passed away during the same period of time.

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

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...

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

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...

"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...

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

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

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

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...

17 Reasons Why was photographed with a variety of semi-ancient regular 8 cameras and is projected unslit as 16mm. The four image format gives a look...

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

Primordial spring is in the air, all is tentative.