Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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

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

"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...

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

This year our mid-summer’s night was adorned with a glorious full moon. The weeks and days preceding the solstice were magically alive with...

Sand, wind, and light intermingle with the emulsions. The viewer is the star.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

William Brown, the son of my dear friend, Owsley Brown, is majoring in acting at the University of Southern California. During the lock down we...

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...