Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

The first of two devotional songs. Part One of a set of Two Devotional Songs. “The Visitation” is a gradual unfolding, an arrival so to...

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

Like a memory already gone, this place of life.

This year our mid-summer’s night was adorned with a glorious full moon. The weeks and days preceding the solstice were magically alive with...

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...

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

An exploration of the cycle of life and the inevitability of passing.

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

Autumn lake in San Francisco.

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

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

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

The ever-presence of death.

Mac McGinnes, a dear friend and neighbor, often sat in with me during my editing sessions. This brief but light-filled farewell was made for Mac upon...

A short portrait of a dear friend and collaborator on Devotional Cinema, Nick Hoff.

Threnody is a somber but luminous progression through a delicate articulation of earthly phenomena… an offering to a friend who died. It is...

A bouquet from those final arid days of summer.

“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...

“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...

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