Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

17 Reasons Why was photographed with a variety of semi-ancient regular 8 cameras and is projected unslit as 16mm. The four image format gives a look...

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

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

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

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

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

Primordial spring is in the air, all is tentative.

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

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...

A silent portrait of Dorsky's collaborator exploring her Aztec heritage.

All the Kodachrome footage chosen to be worked with to make the film Song and Solitude during years 2005 and 2006. During that period I still had the...

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

A bouquet from those final arid days of summer.

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...

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...

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

Dorsky’s three earliest works (made when he “entered the realm of poetic filmmaking as an active maker”), all sound films, with...

An aubade is a poem or morning song evoking the first rays of the sun at daybreak. Often, it includes the atmosphere of lovers parting. This film is...

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...