Nathaniel Dorsky Filmes

Perhaps the most delicately tactile in the series of four cinematic songs, Love's Refrain rests moment to moment on its own surface. It is a coda in...

The ever-presence of death.

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...

In the spirit of the times and my own growing older, a brief tip of the hat…

“A brief lost moment lies between.” — Nathaniel Dorsky

A bouquet from those final arid days of summer.

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...

Ariel is a highly energetic and colorful divertissement of abstract film achieved with improvised home color processing and a physical, almost...

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...

In his contribution to the On Art and Artists interview series, Nathaniel Dorsky (b.1943) begins by discussing his childhood love of the John Ford...

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 first of two devotional songs. Part One of a set of Two Devotional Songs. “The Visitation” is a gradual unfolding, an arrival so to...

Look Park presents close up shots of a country stream viewed in bright sunlight. The film opens with wide shots of the park to establish the location...

“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...

Sand, wind, and light intermingle with the emulsions. The viewer is the star.

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

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

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

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

September’s ripeness, a blessing on earth, our Indian summer.