Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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

"Seven and a half weeks ago, I had open heart surgery...In the three weeks to go before the operation, I bought 21 rolls of film and said 'I'm going...

“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...

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

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

A short portrait of a dear friend and collaborator on Devotional Cinema, Nick Hoff.

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

“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 dedication to Jane Wodening and an ode to the winter sun.

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...

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

The images in this film come from an extensive collection of out-dated raw stock that has been processed without being exposed, and sometimes...

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

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

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

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...

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...

Often I go out shooting with my Bolex in the park’s Arboretum. During the autumn and winter of 2003/2004 I would more than likely run into...

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