Movies

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...

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

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

Perhaps the most delicately tactile in the series of four cinematic songs, Love's Refrain rests moment to moment on its own surface. It is a coda in...

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

"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...

"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...

Summer in San Francisco is a dry and rainless season. The film, Summer, although photographed during this period of time, is not so much a...

In 1948, a small, struggling, semi-professional orchestra in Louisville, Kentucky began a novel project to commission new works from contemporary...

After a lifetime, two mutual friends, George Kuchar and Carla Liss, passed away during the same period of time.

"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...

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,"...

Nathaniel Dorsky's Spring conjures an abundant return of light and a retreat into nature so dense and rich that the film itself becomes a sort of...

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...

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...

The ever-presence of death.

Emanations is the third film made during the COVID crises… in this case October and November reveal small joys in a melancholic sea.

"Temple Sleep was photographed and edited during the initial Virus lockdown. The fly casting pools in Golden Gate Park became a mind healing place...

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

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