Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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

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...

"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...

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

The ever-presence of death.

During a tour with my films in Spain last spring, I had the pleasure of being honoured with the attention of three young people who offered me the...

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

In his contribution to the On Art and Artists interview series, Nathaniel Dorsky (b.1943) begins by discussing his childhood love of the John Ford...

Triste is an indication of the level of cinema language that I have been working towards. By delicately shifting the weight and solidity of the...

"Temple Sleep was photographed and edited during the initial Virus lockdown. The fly casting pools in Golden Gate Park became a mind healing place...

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

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...

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

Look Park presents close up shots of a country stream viewed in bright sunlight. The film opens with wide shots of the park to establish the location...

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...

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...

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,...

The Kodachrome Dailies consist of all the Kodachrome footage chosen to be worked with to make the film Song and Solitude during years 2005 and 2006....

“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...