Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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...

This film is a portrait of the passage of one year in the lives of some San Francisco friends, circa 1988 (before the dot.coming of the city), a slow...

Initially titled "Books for all". A moving institutional commission in which the filmmakers lovingly portray New Jersey's public library system.

Autumn lake in San Francisco.

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

The ever-presence of death.

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

"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...

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

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...

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...

In the last few years I have been making a series of cinematic portraits of young filmmaking friends acting as collaborators in portraiture.There is...

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 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...

Primordial spring is in the air, all is tentative.