Nathaniel Dorsky Filmes

How often and varied we come upon ourselves in this brief life. This film of early spring is a second made in collaboration with Jacob, a young...

Autumn, photographed during the last months of the drought year, 2015, is a stately, but intimate, seasonal tome, a celebration of the poignancy and...

"Compline is a night devotion or prayer, the last of the canonical hours, the final act in a cycle. This film is also the last film I will be able to...

"A pastourelle and an aubade are two different forms of courtship songs from the Troubadour tradition. In this case, the film Pastourelle, a sister...

"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...

A dedication to Jane Wodening and an ode to the winter sun.

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

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

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

A document from the weeks that Stan Brakhage was dying of bladder cancer. Dominic Angerame, then head of Canyon Cinema, and I went up to Victoria,...

Compilation of footage shot from 1974-96, developing on Dorsky's theory of polyvalent editing.

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

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...

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

Nathaniel Dorsky's Spring conjures an abundant return of light and a retreat into nature so dense and rich that the film itself becomes a sort of...

"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...

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

Dark and stately is the warm, graceful tenderness of the Sarabande.

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

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...