Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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

Autumn, photographed during the last months of the drought year, 2015, is a stately, but intimate, seasonal tome, a celebration of the poignancy and...

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

“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...

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

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

Like a memory already gone, this place of life.

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

Mac McGinnes, a dear friend and neighbor, often sat in with me during my editing sessions. This brief but light-filled farewell was made for Mac upon...