Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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...

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

"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...

Primordial spring is in the air, all is tentative.

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

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

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...

Look Park presents close up shots of a country stream viewed in bright sunlight. The film opens with wide shots of the park to establish the location...

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...

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

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

Variations is a 1998 American short silent avant-garde film directed by Nathaniel Dorsky. It is the second film in a set of "Four Cinematic Songs,"...

“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...

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...

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

The ever-presence of death.

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

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

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...

Epilogue is the seventh film in the Arboretum Cycle, a descent into the dark damp earth, a period of dying.