Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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...

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

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

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

“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...

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

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

Autumn, photographed during the last months of the drought year, 2015, is a stately, but intimate, seasonal tome, a celebration of the poignancy and...

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...

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

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

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

All the Kodachrome footage chosen to be worked with to make the film Song and Solitude during years 2005 and 2006. During that period I still had the...

"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...

Emanations is the third film made during the COVID crises… in this case October and November reveal small joys in a melancholic sea.

“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...

Shot in San Francisco from autumn of last year through the winter solstice, Nathaniel Dorsky's Song evinces a cool, mysterious tone as it captures...

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

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