Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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,...

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

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...

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

“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...

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

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

A silent portrait of Dorsky's collaborator exploring her Aztec heritage.

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

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

"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...

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

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

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...

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....

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

An exploration of the cycle of life and the inevitability of passing.

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

"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...

After a lifetime, two mutual friends, George Kuchar and Carla Liss, passed away during the same period of time.