Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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...

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

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

A silent portrait of Dorsky's collaborator exploring her Aztec heritage.

"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...

Terce is the sixth film made during the Covid crises… the yellow greens of spring at last… the beginning of a greater relaxation.

An exploration of the cycle of life and the inevitability of passing.

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

Compilation of footage shot from 1974-96, developing on Dorsky's theory of polyvalent editing.

A document from the weeks that Stan Brakhage was dying of bladder cancer. Dominic Angerame, then head of Canyon Cinema, and I went up to Victoria,...

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

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

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

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...

“Renga is a linked-verse form of Japanese poetry that, though still practiced today, reached its peak between the 13th and 16th centuries....

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...

Look Park presents close up shots of a country stream viewed in bright sunlight. The film opens with wide shots of the park to establish the location...

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

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

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