Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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

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

“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...

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

Shot in San Francisco from autumn of last year through the winter solstice, Nathaniel Dorsky's Song evinces a cool, mysterious tone as it captures...

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...

Following a period of trauma and grief, the world around me once again declared itself in the form of one of the loveliest springs I can ever...

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

"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...

A bouquet from those final arid days of summer.

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...

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...

The ever-presence of death.