Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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...

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...

“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...

Triste is an indication of the level of cinema language that I have been working towards. By delicately shifting the weight and solidity of the...

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...

A bouquet from those final arid days of summer.

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

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

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

“This modest little film completely turned me around. Up until that point I had been using the world to make a film, and what Jerome showed me...

“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...

Look Park presents close up shots of a country stream viewed in bright sunlight. The film opens with wide shots of the park to establish the location...

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

A document from the weeks that Stan Brakhage was dying of bladder cancer. Dominic Angerame, then head of Canyon Cinema, and I went up to Victoria,...

"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...

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

Autumn lake in San Francisco.

In the spirit of the times and my own growing older, a brief tip of the hat… (Nathaniel Dorsky)

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...

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