Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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...

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...

Autumn lake in San Francisco.

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

Emanations is the third film made during the COVID crises… in this case October and November reveal small joys in a melancholic sea.

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

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...

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

San Francisco's winter is a season unto itself. Fleeting, rain-soaked, verdant, a brief period of shadows and renewal.

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

"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...

"February was photographed during the first weeks of early spring in San Francisco. For me there is a haunted sense of restlessness in its form, some...

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

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

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

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

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

“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...

"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...

Following a period of trauma and grief, the world around me once again declared itself in the form of one of the loveliest springs I can ever...