Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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...

In 1948, a small, struggling, semi-professional orchestra in Louisville, Kentucky began a novel project to commission new works from contemporary...

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

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...

Catch A Tiger is an educational film that shows some of the spontaneous results in music, dance and art when the nursery school child's innate...

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

The recording of the daily events of Dorsky and his partner, artist Jerome Hiler, around Lake Owassa in New Jersey and in Manhattan. The two parts of...

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

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

A bouquet from those final arid days of summer.

Summer in San Francisco is a dry and rainless season. The film, Summer, although photographed during this period of time, is not so much a...

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

"Compline is a night devotion or prayer, the last of the canonical hours, the final act in a cycle. This film is also the last film I will be able to...

"Temple Sleep was photographed and edited during the initial Virus lockdown. The fly casting pools in Golden Gate Park became a mind healing place...

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...

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

Perhaps the most delicately tactile in the series of four cinematic songs, Love's Refrain rests moment to moment on its own surface. It is a coda in...

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...