Nathaniel Dorsky Filmes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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...

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....

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

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...

“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...

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

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

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...

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

“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...

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

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

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...