Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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.

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...

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

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

"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...

Mac McGinnes, a dear friend and neighbor, often sat in with me during my editing sessions. This brief but light-filled farewell was made for Mac upon...

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

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

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

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...

"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...

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

“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...

Carriage Trade was an evolving work-in-progress, and this 61-minute version is the definitive form in which Sonbert realized it, preserved intact...

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

"In most of my films I have had the burden of adding a title afterwards. Sometimes the word or words would come automatically, but more often with...

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...

In the last few years I have been making a series of cinematic portraits of young filmmaking friends acting as collaborators in portraiture.There is...

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