Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

"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...

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

Warren Sonbert described Divided Loyalties as a film 'about art vs. industry and their various crossovers.' According to film critic Amy Taubin,...

A dedication to Jane Wodening and an ode to the winter sun.

Arbor Vitae is a gesture towards a cinema of pure being. Its atmosphere is haunted by the period in which it was shot, the year of 1999. Although the...

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

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

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...

Dark and stately is the warm, graceful tenderness of the Sarabande.

The ever-presence of death.

A bouquet from those final arid days of summer.