Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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...

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...

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...

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...

Autumn lake in San Francisco.

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

A bouquet from those final arid days of summer.