Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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...

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

“Renga is a linked-verse form of Japanese poetry that, though still practiced today, reached its peak between the 13th and 16th centuries....

17 Reasons Why was photographed with a variety of semi-ancient regular 8 cameras and is projected unslit as 16mm. The four image format gives a look...

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

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...

In the last few years I have been making a series of cinematic portraits of young filmmaking friends acting as collaborators in portraiture.There is...

“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...

“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...

"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...

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

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

A bouquet from those final arid days of summer.

The ever-presence of death.

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

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,...

"Seven and a half weeks ago, I had open heart surgery...In the three weeks to go before the operation, I bought 21 rolls of film and said 'I'm going...

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

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...

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...