Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

In the spirit of the times and my own growing older, a brief tip of the hat… (Nathaniel Dorsky)

"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...

These four films spontaneously manifested as four stages of life: childhood, youth, maturity and old age. Elohim was photographed in early spring,...

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

"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...

"This footage was shot and edited from 1966 to 1970 and then edited to completion over a two year period ending in July 1982. Hours for Jerome (as in...

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

Before he impressed the literary world with his books, author Paul Bowles was a music composer, collaborating with the likes of Aaron Copland and...

“A brief lost moment lies between.” — Nathaniel Dorsky

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

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

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...

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.

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

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

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

"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...

“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...