Nathaniel Dorsky Filmes

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...

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

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...

Autumn lake in San Francisco.

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

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

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...

“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...

Ariel is a highly energetic and colorful divertissement of abstract film achieved with improvised home color processing and a physical, almost...

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...

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

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...

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

Terce is the sixth film made during the Covid crises… the yellow greens of spring at last… the beginning of a greater relaxation.

Compilation of footage shot from 1974-96, developing on Dorsky's theory of polyvalent editing.

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

“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...

A bouquet from those final arid days of summer.

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

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