Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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...

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

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...

Autumn lake in San Francisco.

How often and varied we come upon ourselves in this brief life. This film of early spring is a second made in collaboration with Jacob, a young...

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...

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...

"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...

The first in a brief series of small personal gifts, made in celebration of the first birthday of Cecilia, the daughter of Antonella Bonfanti who for...

Catch A Tiger is an educational film that shows some of the spontaneous results in music, dance and art when the nursery school child's innate...

"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...

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

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

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