Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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

“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...

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

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...

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...

"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...

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

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

Stoned people, music, movement, fields.

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...

“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...

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...

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...

All the Kodachrome footage chosen to be worked with to make the film Song and Solitude during years 2005 and 2006. During that period I still had the...

"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...

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

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

In 1948, a small, struggling, semi-professional orchestra in Louisville, Kentucky began a novel project to commission new works from contemporary...