Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

In the last few years I have been making a series of cinematic portraits of young filmmaking friends acting as collaborators in portraiture.There is...

The ever-presence of death.

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...

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...

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

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...

"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

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

Like a memory already gone, this place of life.

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

Triste is an indication of the level of cinema language that I have been working towards. By delicately shifting the weight and solidity of the...

“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...

A personal travel film shot in Oaxaca and then in France and Italy.

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...

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.

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 first of two devotional songs. Part One of a set of Two Devotional Songs. “The Visitation” is a gradual unfolding, an arrival so to...

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