Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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

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...

Like a memory already gone, this place of life.

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...

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

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...

Following a period of trauma and grief, the world around me once again declared itself in the form of one of the loveliest springs I can ever...

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...

A bouquet from those final arid days of summer.

NEW SHORES is a sister film to IN THE STONE HOUSE in many ways. Like the latter film, it consists of earlier footage edited in recent years. It could...

Stoned people, music, movement, fields.

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....

Ariel is a highly energetic and colorful divertissement of abstract film achieved with improvised home color processing and a physical, almost...

Ossuary was made up of the Kodachrome outs and trims from more than a decade of shooting and making films in Kodachrome. This new film, Dreams Reveal...

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

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...

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...

A short portrait of a dear friend and collaborator on Devotional Cinema, Nick Hoff.

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...

“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...