Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

Initially titled "Books for all". A moving institutional commission in which the filmmakers lovingly portray New Jersey's public library system.

Before he impressed the literary world with his books, author Paul Bowles was a music composer, collaborating with the likes of Aaron Copland and...

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

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

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...

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...

“Renga is a linked-verse form of Japanese poetry that, though still practiced today, reached its peak between the 13th and 16th centuries....

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...

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

Dark and stately is the warm, graceful tenderness of the Sarabande.

“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...

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...

"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...

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...

Like a memory already gone, this place of life.

Ariel is a highly energetic and colorful divertissement of abstract film achieved with improvised home color processing and a physical, almost...

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...

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

“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...