Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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

Conceived and photographed with the loving collaboration of Susan Vigil during the last year of her life, Song and Solitude is balanced more toward...

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

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

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

A bouquet from those final arid days of summer.

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

Light in the gardens of the San Francisco Arboretum, photographed in early spring. Elohim are divine beings, the energy of light as creation.

The ever-presence of death.

Terce is the sixth film made during the Covid crises… the yellow greens of spring at last… the beginning of a greater relaxation.

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...

Epilogue is the seventh film in the Arboretum Cycle, a descent into the dark damp earth, a period of dying.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...