Nathaniel Dorsky Filmes

  • 1964
    Ingreen

    Ingreen

    Ingreen

    01964HD

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

    Ingreen
  • 2004
    Threnody

    Threnody

    Threnody

    62004HD

    Threnody is a somber but luminous progression through a delicate articulation of earthly phenomena… an offering to a friend who died. It is...

    Threnody
  • 2020
    Emanations

    Emanations

    Emanations

    02020HD

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

    Emanations
  • 2008
    Sarabande

    Sarabande

    Sarabande

    62008HD

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

    Sarabande
  • 2019
    Canticles

    Canticles

    Canticles

    02019HD

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

    Canticles
  • 2015
    Prelude

    Prelude

    Prelude

    02015HD

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

    Prelude
  • 2023
    O Death

    O Death

    O Death

    02023HD

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

    O Death
  • 2014
    December

    December

    December

    62014HD

    "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...

    December
  • 2006
    Kodachrome Dailies from the Time of Song and Solitude (Reel 1)

    Kodachrome Dailies from the Time of Song and Solitude (Reel 1)

    Kodachrome Dailies from the Time of Song and Solitude (Reel 1)

    02006HD

    The Kodachrome Dailies consist of all the Kodachrome footage chosen to be worked with to make the film Song and Solitude during years 2005 and 2006....

    Kodachrome Dailies from the Time of Song and Solitude (Reel 1)
  • 1967
    Abstraction

    Abstraction

    Abstraction

    01967HD

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

    Abstraction
  • 2010
    Aubade

    Aubade

    Aubade

    62010HD

    An aubade is a poem or morning song evoking the first rays of the sun at daybreak. Often, it includes the atmosphere of lovers parting. This film is...

    Aubade
  • 1967
    Fool’s Spring (Two Personal Gifts)

    Fool’s Spring (Two Personal Gifts)

    Fool’s Spring (Two Personal Gifts)

    01967HD

    “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...

    Fool’s Spring (Two Personal Gifts)
  • 2000
    Night Waltz: The Music of Paul Bowles

    Night Waltz: The Music of Paul Bowles

    Night Waltz: The Music of Paul Bowles

    6.22000HD

    Before he impressed the literary world with his books, author Paul Bowles was a music composer, collaborating with the likes of Aaron Copland and...

    Night Waltz: The Music of Paul Bowles
  • 2008
    Winter

    Winter

    Winter

    02008HD

    San Francisco's winter is a season unto itself. Fleeting, rain-soaked, verdant, a brief period of shadows and renewal.

    Winter
  • 2023
    Pavane

    Pavane

    Pavane

    02023HD

    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...

    Pavane
  • 1965
    A Fall Trip Home

    A Fall Trip Home

    A Fall Trip Home

    01965HD

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

    A Fall Trip Home
  • 2016
    Ossuary

    Ossuary

    Ossuary

    02016HD

    “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...

    Ossuary
  • 1983
    Pneuma

    Pneuma

    Pneuma

    41983HD

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

    Pneuma
  • 2016
    Lux Perpetua I

    Lux Perpetua I

    Lux Perpetua I

    02016HD

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

    Lux Perpetua I
  • 2022
    Caracole (for Mac)

    Caracole (for Mac)

    Caracole (for Mac)

    02022HD

    Mac McGinnes, a dear friend and neighbor, often sat in with me during my editing sessions. This brief but light-filled farewell was made for Mac upon...

    Caracole (for Mac)