Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

Short film presented by the American Federation of Arts about the physics and characteristics of abstraction. Distorting physical items from science,...

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

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

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

During a tour with my films in Spain last spring, I had the pleasure of being honoured with the attention of three young people who offered me the...

Like a memory already gone, this place of life.

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...

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

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

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

This year our mid-summer’s night was adorned with a glorious full moon. The weeks and days preceding the solstice were magically alive with...

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...

These four films spontaneously manifested as four stages of life: childhood, youth, maturity and old age. Elohim was photographed in early spring,...

These four films spontaneously manifested as four stages of life: childhood, youth, maturity and old age. Elohim was photographed in early spring,...

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

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

Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle) has three sections. It is in the spirit of the early Chinese landscape colophons, a text added to the horizontal...

The Kodachrome Dailies consist of all the Kodachrome footage chosen to be worked with to make the film Song and Solitude during years 2005 and 2006....

"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...

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