Movies

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...

“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...

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...

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

“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...

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

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...

Sand, wind, and light intermingle with the emulsions. The viewer is the star.

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

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

Stoned people, music, movement, fields.

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

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

"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...

Short film presented by the American Federation of Arts about the physics and characteristics of abstraction. Distorting physical items from science,...

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...

Autumn lake in San Francisco.

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...

Catch A Tiger is an educational film that shows some of the spontaneous results in music, dance and art when the nursery school child's innate...