Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

"Temple Sleep was photographed and edited during the initial Virus lockdown. The fly casting pools in Golden Gate Park became a mind healing place...

A silent portrait of Dorsky's collaborator exploring her Aztec heritage.

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...

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

A monody is an ode sung by a single actor in a Greek tragedy, a poem lamenting a person’s death. In this case, the sixth section of the...

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

Autumn lake in San Francisco.

“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...

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...

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...

Abaton, a sacred place, a sanctuary for dreaming and healing.

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...

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

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

A bouquet from those final arid days of summer.

"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...

"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...

“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...

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

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