Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

"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...

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

"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...

The ever-presence of death.

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...

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...

“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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

The images in this film come from an extensive collection of out-dated raw stock that has been processed without being exposed, and sometimes...

The first of two devotional songs. Part One of a set of Two Devotional Songs. “The Visitation” is a gradual unfolding, an arrival so to...

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

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

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...