Nathaniel Dorsky Filmes

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

William Brown, the son of my dear friend, Owsley Brown, is majoring in acting at the University of Southern California. During the lock down we...

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

"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...

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

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

Arbor Vitae is a gesture towards a cinema of pure being. Its atmosphere is haunted by the period in which it was shot, the year of 1999. Although the...

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

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,...

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...

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...

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,"...

A bouquet from those final arid days of summer.

Initially titled "Books for all". A moving institutional commission in which the filmmakers lovingly portray New Jersey's public library system.

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

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

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

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

Like a memory already gone, this place of life.

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