Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

In 1948, a small, struggling, semi-professional orchestra in Louisville, Kentucky began a novel project to commission new works from contemporary...

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 film is a portrait of the passage of one year in the lives of some San Francisco friends, circa 1988 (before the dot.coming of the city), a slow...

Short film presented by the American Federation of Arts about the physics and characteristics of abstraction. Distorting physical items from science,...

A document from the weeks that Stan Brakhage was dying of bladder cancer. Dominic Angerame, then head of Canyon Cinema, and I went up to Victoria,...

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

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 first of two devotional songs. Part One of a set of Two Devotional Songs. “The Visitation” is a gradual unfolding, an arrival so to...

Like a memory already gone, this place of life.

"Seven and a half weeks ago, I had open heart surgery...In the three weeks to go before the operation, I bought 21 rolls of film and said 'I'm going...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

“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...