Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

  • 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)
  • 2020
    Temple Sleep

    Temple Sleep

    Temple Sleep

    02020HD

    "Temple Sleep was photographed and edited during the initial Virus lockdown. The fly casting pools in Golden Gate Park became a mind healing place...

    Temple Sleep
  • 2020
    Lamentations

    Lamentations

    Lamentations

    82020HD

    "Lamentations is a cinematic tumble through diverse dreamscapes in a man-made world." —N.D.

    Lamentations
  • 2006
    Song and Solitude

    Song and Solitude

    Song and Solitude

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    Conceived and photographed with the loving collaboration of Susan Vigil during the last year of her life, Song and Solitude is balanced more toward...

    Song and Solitude
  • 2014
    February

    February

    February

    62014HD

    "February was photographed during the first weeks of early spring in San Francisco. For me there is a haunted sense of restlessness in its form, some...

    February
  • 2020
    William

    William

    William

    02020HD

    William Brown, the son of my dear friend, Owsley Brown, is majoring in acting at the University of Southern California. During the lock down we...

    William
  • 2017
    Elohim

    Elohim

    Elohim

    02017HD

    Light in the gardens of the San Francisco Arboretum, photographed in early spring. Elohim are divine beings, the energy of light as creation.

    Elohim
  • 2020
    Emanations

    Emanations

    Emanations

    02020HD

    Emanations is the third film made during the COVID crises… in this case October and November reveal small joys in a melancholic sea.

    Emanations
  • 2016
    Lux Perpetua I

    Lux Perpetua I

    Lux Perpetua I

    02016HD

    A personal travel film shot in Oaxaca and then in France and Italy.

    Lux Perpetua I
  • 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
  • 2017
    Ode

    Ode

    Ode

    02017HD

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

    Ode
  • 2018
    Calyx

    Calyx

    Calyx

    02018HD

    "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...

    Calyx
  • 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
  • 2022
    Naos

    Naos

    Naos

    02022HD

    A Naos is the inner room of an ancient Greek temple in which the image of the deity celebrated by that temple is depicted (usually in the form of a...

    Naos
  • 2019
    Canticles

    Canticles

    Canticles

    02019HD

    A strange autumnal in an empty world, a film of late autumn and ghostly presences.

    Canticles
  • 1963
    Catch A Tiger

    Catch A Tiger

    Catch A Tiger

    01963HD

    Catch A Tiger is an educational film that shows some of the spontaneous results in music, dance and art when the nursery school child's innate...

    Catch A Tiger