Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

Abaton, a sacred place, a sanctuary for dreaming and healing.

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...

Nathaniel Dorsky's Spring conjures an abundant return of light and a retreat into nature so dense and rich that the film itself becomes a sort of...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

Primordial spring is in the air, all is tentative.

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...

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...

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

"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...

"I have been wanting to make a shorter film in and about a briefer period of time. December was photographed during this often turbulent month and...

A silent portrait of Dorsky's collaborator exploring her Aztec heritage.

Ossuary was made up of the Kodachrome outs and trims from more than a decade of shooting and making films in Kodachrome. This new film, Dreams Reveal...

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

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

17 Reasons Why was photographed with a variety of semi-ancient regular 8 cameras and is projected unslit as 16mm. The four image format gives a look...