Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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

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

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

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.

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...

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

"A pastourelle and an aubade are two different forms of courtship songs from the Troubadour tradition. In this case, the film Pastourelle, a sister...

Autumn, photographed during the last months of the drought year, 2015, is a stately, but intimate, seasonal tome, a celebration of the poignancy 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...

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

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

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...

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...

Autumn lake in San Francisco.

In the spirit of the times and my own growing older, a brief tip of the hat… (Nathaniel Dorsky)

An aubade is a poem or morning song evoking the first rays of the sun at daybreak. Often, it includes the atmosphere of lovers parting. This film is...

A bouquet from those final arid days of summer.

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

"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...