Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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

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...

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

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

A bouquet from those final arid days of summer.

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

“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...

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

"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...

"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...

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...

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

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

Autumn lake in San Francisco.

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...

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

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

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...

Primordial spring is in the air, all is tentative.

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...