Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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...

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...

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...

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

A bouquet from those final arid days of summer.

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

“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...

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

Epilogue is the seventh film in the Arboretum Cycle, a descent into the dark damp earth, a period of dying.

A dedication to Jane Wodening and an ode to the winter sun.

Autumn lake in San Francisco.

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...

"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...

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...

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