Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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...

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

A strange autumnal in an empty world, a film of late autumn and ghostly presences.

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

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

“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...

This year our mid-summer’s night was adorned with a glorious full moon. The weeks and days preceding the solstice were magically alive with...

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

Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle) has three sections. It is in the spirit of the early Chinese landscape colophons, a text added to the horizontal...

September’s ripeness, a blessing on earth, our Indian summer.

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

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...

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

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

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...

Often I go out shooting with my Bolex in the park’s Arboretum. During the autumn and winter of 2003/2004 I would more than likely run into...

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

"February was photographed during the first weeks of early spring in San Francisco. For me there is a haunted sense of restlessness in its form, some...

"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...