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...

Often I go out shooting with my Bolex in the park’s Arboretum. During the autumn and winter of 2003/2004 I would more than likely run into...

Primordial spring is in the air, all is tentative.

From the moment David Brower first laid eyes on the beauty of the Yosemite Valley, he wanted to the fight to preserve the American wilderness for...

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

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...

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

Following a period of trauma and grief, the world around me once again declared itself in the form of one of the loveliest springs I can ever...

"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...

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...

During a tour with my films in Spain last spring, I had the pleasure of being honoured with the attention of three young people who offered me the...

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

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

“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...

17 Reasons Why was photographed with a variety of semi-ancient regular 8 cameras and is projected unslit as 16mm. The four image format gives a look...

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,...

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

"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...

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

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