Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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...

Stoned people, music, movement, fields.

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...

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

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

The ever-presence of death.

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

Perhaps the most delicately tactile in the series of four cinematic songs, Love's Refrain rests moment to moment on its own surface. It is a coda in...

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

Shot in San Francisco from autumn of last year through the winter solstice, Nathaniel Dorsky's Song evinces a cool, mysterious tone as it captures...

Initially titled "Books for all". A moving institutional commission in which the filmmakers lovingly portray New Jersey's public library system.

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...