Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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

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,...

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

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

“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...

"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...

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...

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...

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

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 silent portrait of Dorsky's collaborator exploring her Aztec heritage.

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....

Ossuary was made up of the Kodachrome outs and trims from more than a decade of shooting and making films in Kodachrome. This new film, Dreams Reveal...

Primordial spring is in the air, all is tentative.

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...

Autumn lake in San Francisco.

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...

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...

"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...

Variations is a 1998 American short silent avant-garde film directed by Nathaniel Dorsky. It is the second film in a set of "Four Cinematic Songs,"...