Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

A dedication to Jane Wodening and an ode to the winter sun.

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

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...

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

"In most of my films I have had the burden of adding a title afterwards. Sometimes the word or words would come automatically, but more often with...

The psychological and emotional motivations of gay sexual fetish, especially relating to gay male teens maturing into men and their sexual exploits.

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

“Renga is a linked-verse form of Japanese poetry that, though still practiced today, reached its peak between the 13th and 16th centuries....

Nathaniel Dorsky's Spring conjures an abundant return of light and a retreat into nature so dense and rich that the film itself becomes a sort of...

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....

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...

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...

Conceived and photographed with the loving collaboration of Susan Vigil during the last year of her life, Song and Solitude is balanced more toward...

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

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

"I have been wanting to make a shorter film in and about a briefer period of time. December was photographed during this often turbulent month and...

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

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

Autumn lake in San Francisco.

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...