Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

Conceived and photographed with the loving collaboration of Susan Vigil during the last year of her life, Song and Solitude is balanced more toward...

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,"...

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

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...

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

“Renga is a linked-verse form of Japanese poetry that, though still practiced today, reached its peak between the 13th and 16th centuries....

"Compline is a night devotion or prayer, the last of the canonical hours, the final act in a cycle. This film is also the last film I will be able to...

Threnody is a somber but luminous progression through a delicate articulation of earthly phenomena… an offering to a friend who died. It is...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

“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...

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