Movies

  • 2014
    Fortune

    Fortune

    Fortune

    02014HD

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

    Fortune
  • 2019
    Caracole (for Cecilia)

    Caracole (for Cecilia)

    Caracole (for Cecilia)

    02019HD

    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...

    Caracole (for Cecilia)
  • 2018
    Monody

    Monody

    Monody

    02018HD

    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...

    Monody
  • 2014
    Nathaniel Dorsky: An Interview

    Nathaniel Dorsky: An Interview

    Nathaniel Dorsky: An Interview

    02014HD

    In his contribution to the On Art and Artists interview series, Nathaniel Dorsky (b.1943) begins by discussing his childhood love of the John Ford...

    Nathaniel Dorsky: An Interview
  • 2013
    Summer

    Summer

    Summer

    02013HD

    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...

    Summer
  • 2023
    Place d'or

    Place d'or

    Place d'or

    02023HD

    Autumn lake in San Francisco.

    Place d'or
  • 2023
    Pavane

    Pavane

    Pavane

    02023HD

    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...

    Pavane
  • 2015
    Intimations

    Intimations

    Intimations

    02015HD

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

    Intimations
  • 2008
    Winter

    Winter

    Winter

    02008HD

    San Francisco's winter is a season unto itself. Fleeting, rain-soaked, verdant, a brief period of shadows and renewal.

    Winter
  • 2008
    Sarabande

    Sarabande

    Sarabande

    62008HD

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

    Sarabande
  • 2018
    Epilogue

    Epilogue

    Epilogue

    02018HD

    Epilogue is the seventh film in the Arboretum Cycle, a descent into the dark damp earth, a period of dying.

    Epilogue
  • 2012
    August and After

    August and After

    August and After

    5.52012HD

    After a lifetime, two mutual friends, George Kuchar and Carla Liss, passed away during the same period of time.

    August and After
  • 1987
    Alaya

    Alaya

    Alaya

    81987HD

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

    Alaya
  • 2018
    September

    September

    September

    02018HD

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

    September
  • 2012
    New Shores

    New Shores

    New Shores

    02012HD

    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...

    New Shores
  • 2010
    Pastourelle

    Pastourelle

    Pastourelle

    62010HD

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

    Pastourelle
  • 2010
    Aubade

    Aubade

    Aubade

    62010HD

    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...

    Aubade
  • 2023
    O Death

    O Death

    O Death

    02023HD

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

    O Death
  • 2010
    Music Makes a City: A Louisville Orchestra Story

    Music Makes a City: A Louisville Orchestra Story

    Music Makes a City: A Louisville Orchestra Story

    02010HD

    In 1948, a small, struggling, semi-professional orchestra in Louisville, Kentucky began a novel project to commission new works from contemporary...

    Music Makes a City: A Louisville Orchestra Story
  • 2022
    Interval

    Interval

    Interval

    02022HD

    A bouquet from those final arid days of summer.

    Interval