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...

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

In his contribution to the On Art and Artists interview series, Nathaniel Dorsky (b.1943) begins by discussing his childhood love of the John Ford...

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...

“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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

A personal travel film shot in Oaxaca and then in France and Italy.

"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...

NEW SHORES is a sister film to IN THE STONE HOUSE in many ways. Like the latter film, it consists of earlier footage edited in recent years. It could...

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

Stoned people, music, movement, fields.

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

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...

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...

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