Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

Compilation of footage shot from 1974-96, developing on Dorsky's theory of polyvalent editing.

"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...

"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...

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

“A brief lost moment lies between.” — Nathaniel Dorsky

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

An exploration of the cycle of life and the inevitability of passing.

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...

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

"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...

After a lifetime, two mutual friends, George Kuchar and Carla Liss, passed away during the same period of time.

Abaton, a sacred place, a sanctuary for dreaming and healing.

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...

The Kodachrome Dailies consist of all the Kodachrome footage chosen to be worked with to make the film Song and Solitude during years 2005 and 2006....

Like a memory already gone, this place of life.

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

The first in a brief series of small personal gifts, made in celebration of the first birthday of Cecilia, the daughter of Antonella Bonfanti who for...

The ever-presence of death.

Autumn lake in San Francisco.

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