Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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...

Like a memory already gone, this place of life.

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...

“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...

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

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

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...

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...

The ever-presence of death.

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...

The Kodachrome Dailies consist of all the Kodachrome footage chosen to be worked with to make the film Song and Solitude during years 2005 and 2006....

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

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

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

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

All the Kodachrome footage chosen to be worked with to make the film Song and Solitude during years 2005 and 2006. During that period I still had the...

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

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

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...

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...