Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

"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.

The first in a brief series of small personal gifts, made in celebration of the first birthday of Cecilia, the daughter of Antonella Bonfanti who for...

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

“A brief lost moment lies between.” — Nathaniel Dorsky

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,...

"Seven and a half weeks ago, I had open heart surgery...In the three weeks to go before the operation, I bought 21 rolls of film and said 'I'm going...

Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle) has three sections. It is in the spirit of the early Chinese landscape colophons, a text added to the horizontal...

Epilogue is the seventh film in the Arboretum Cycle, a descent into the dark damp earth, a period of dying.

A monody is an ode sung by a single actor in a Greek tragedy, a poem lamenting a person’s death. In this case, the sixth section of the...

September’s ripeness, a blessing on earth, our Indian summer.

These four films spontaneously manifested as four stages of life: childhood, youth, maturity and old age. Elohim was photographed in early spring,...

These four films spontaneously manifested as four stages of life: childhood, youth, maturity and old age. Elohim was photographed in early spring,...

Abaton, a sacred place, a sanctuary for dreaming and healing.

Light in the gardens of the San Francisco Arboretum, photographed in early spring. Elohim are divine beings, the energy of light as creation.

This year our mid-summer’s night was adorned with a glorious full moon. The weeks and days preceding the solstice were magically alive with...

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...

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

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

“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...