Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

The ever-presence of death.

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

"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.

Conceived and photographed with the loving collaboration of Susan Vigil during the last year of her life, Song and Solitude is balanced more toward...

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

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...

Autumn lake in San Francisco.

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...

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

"Lamentations is a cinematic tumble through diverse dreamscapes in a man-made world." —N.D.

“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...