Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

"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...

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...

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

Like a memory already gone, this place of life.

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

Autumn lake in San Francisco.

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

"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...

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

A Naos is the inner room of an ancient Greek temple in which the image of the deity celebrated by that temple is depicted (usually in the form of a...

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...

Mac McGinnes, a dear friend and neighbor, often sat in with me during my editing sessions. This brief but light-filled farewell was made for Mac upon...

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

"Lamentations is a cinematic tumble through diverse dreamscapes in a man-made world." —N.D.

Projecting films at the Film-Makers' Cinematheque on Bruce Conner, Andy Warhol and Harry Smith