Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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...

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.

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

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

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...

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...

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...

“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...

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,...

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

"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...

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

Variations is a 1998 American short silent avant-garde film directed by Nathaniel Dorsky. It is the second film in a set of "Four Cinematic Songs,"...

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

"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...

The ever-presence of death.

"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...

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