Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

“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...

Catch A Tiger is an educational film that shows some of the spontaneous results in music, dance and art when the nursery school child's innate...

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...

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

During a tour with my films in Spain last spring, I had the pleasure of being honoured with the attention of three young people who offered me the...

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...

Conceived and photographed with the loving collaboration of Susan Vigil during the last year of her life, Song and Solitude is balanced more toward...

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

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...

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...

Terce is the sixth film made during the Covid crises… the yellow greens of spring at last… the beginning of a greater relaxation.

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...

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

A Naos is the inner room of an ancient Greek temple in which the image of the deity celebrated by that temple is depicted (usually in the form of a...

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

A contemplative portrait of experimental filmmakers Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler, and their shared devotion to the art of seeing that has shaped...