Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

Autumn lake in San Francisco.

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...

Ossuary was made up of the Kodachrome outs and trims from more than a decade of shooting and making films in Kodachrome. This new film, Dreams Reveal...

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

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

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

“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...

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...

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

"Temple Sleep was photographed and edited during the initial Virus lockdown. The fly casting pools in Golden Gate Park became a mind healing place...

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...

"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...

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

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

A bouquet from those final arid days of summer.

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

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...

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

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

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