Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

  • 2015
    Intimations

    Intimations

    Intimations

    02015HD

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

    Intimations
  • 2013
    Summer

    Summer

    Summer

    72013HD

    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...

    Summer
  • 2016
    Ossuary

    Ossuary

    Ossuary

    02016HD

    “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...

    Ossuary
  • 2008
    Winter

    Winter

    Winter

    02008HD

    San Francisco's winter is a season unto itself. Fleeting, rain-soaked, verdant, a brief period of shadows and renewal.

    Winter
  • 1963
    Catch A Tiger

    Catch A Tiger

    Catch A Tiger

    01963HD

    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...

    Catch A Tiger
  • 2016
    Lux Perpetua I

    Lux Perpetua I

    Lux Perpetua I

    02016HD

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

    Lux Perpetua I
  • 2014
    December

    December

    December

    62014HD

    "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...

    December
  • 2018
    Epilogue

    Epilogue

    Epilogue

    02018HD

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

    Epilogue
  • 2018
    Calyx

    Calyx

    Calyx

    02018HD

    "Seven and a half weeks ago, I had open heart surgery...In the three weeks to go before the operation, I bought 21 rolls of film and said 'I'm going...

    Calyx
  • 2012
    New Shores

    New Shores

    New Shores

    82012HD

    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...

    New Shores
  • 1987
    Alaya

    Alaya

    Alaya

    81987HD

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

    Alaya
  • 2022
    Naos

    Naos

    Naos

    02022HD

    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...

    Naos
  • 2019
    Caracole (for Cecilia)

    Caracole (for Cecilia)

    Caracole (for Cecilia)

    02019HD

    The first in a brief series of small personal gifts, made in celebration of the first birthday of Cecilia, the daughter of Antonella Bonfanti who for...

    Caracole (for Cecilia)
  • 2022
    Caracole (for Mac)

    Caracole (for Mac)

    Caracole (for Mac)

    02022HD

    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...

    Caracole (for Mac)
  • 2019
    Canticles

    Canticles

    Canticles

    02019HD

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

    Canticles
  • 2020
    Lamentations

    Lamentations

    Lamentations

    82020HD

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

    Lamentations