Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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

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

"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...

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

“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...

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

"Seven and a half weeks ago, I had open heart surgery...In the three weeks to go before the operation, I bought 21 rolls of film and said 'I'm going...

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

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

A short portrait of a dear friend and collaborator on Devotional Cinema, Nick Hoff.

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...

Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle) has three sections. It is in the spirit of the early Chinese landscape colophons, a text added to the horizontal...

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

A strange autumnal in an empty world, a film of late autumn and ghostly presences.

"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...

San Francisco's winter is a season unto itself. Fleeting, rain-soaked, verdant, a brief period of shadows and renewal.

Often I go out shooting with my Bolex in the park’s Arboretum. During the autumn and winter of 2003/2004 I would more than likely run into...

“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...

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

"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...