Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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 ever-presence of death.

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

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

“The title Apricity refers to the warmth of the sun in winter. It is an homage to the writer Jane (Brakhage) Wodening. In speaking to her I...

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...

Dorsky’s three earliest works (made when he “entered the realm of poetic filmmaking as an active maker”), all sound films, with...

Warren Sonbert described Divided Loyalties as a film 'about art vs. industry and their various crossovers.' According to film critic Amy Taubin,...

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...

The first of two devotional songs. Part One of a set of Two Devotional Songs. “The Visitation” is a gradual unfolding, an arrival so to...

Dorsky’s three earliest works (made when he “entered the realm of poetic filmmaking as an active maker”), all sound films, with...

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

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...

Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle) has three sections. It is in the spirit of the early Chinese landscape colophons, a text added to the horizontal...

Autumn lake in San Francisco.

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...

Stoned people, music, movement, fields.

Shot in San Francisco from autumn of last year through the winter solstice, Nathaniel Dorsky's Song evinces a cool, mysterious tone as it captures...

In the last few years I have been making a series of cinematic portraits of young filmmaking friends acting as collaborators in portraiture.There is...

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