Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

Shot in San Francisco from autumn of last year through the winter solstice, Nathaniel Dorsky's Song evinces a cool, mysterious tone as it captures...

The recording of the daily events of Dorsky and his partner, artist Jerome Hiler, around Lake Owassa in New Jersey and in Manhattan. The two parts of...

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

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 monody is an ode sung by a single actor in a Greek tragedy, a poem lamenting a person’s death. In this case, the sixth section of the...

Autumn lake in San Francisco.

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

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

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

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

"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...

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

Summer in San Francisco is a dry and rainless season. The film, Summer, although photographed during this period of time, is not so much a...

A personal travel film shot in Oaxaca and then in France and Italy.

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...

“This modest little film completely turned me around. Up until that point I had been using the world to make a film, and what Jerome showed me...

Stoned people, music, movement, fields.

Often I go out shooting with my Bolex in the park’s Arboretum. During the autumn and winter of 2003/2004 I would more than likely run into...

“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...

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