Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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

Ossuary was made up of the Kodachrome outs and trims from more than a decade of shooting and making films in Kodachrome. This new film, Dreams Reveal...

William Brown, the son of my dear friend, Owsley Brown, is majoring in acting at the University of Southern California. During the lock down we...

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

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

How often and varied we come upon ourselves in this brief life. This film of early spring is a second made in collaboration with Jacob, a young...

The ever-presence of death.

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...

These four films spontaneously manifested as four stages of life: childhood, youth, maturity and old age. Elohim was photographed in early spring,...

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...

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

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

Like a memory already gone, this place of life.

"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...

“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...

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

"A pastourelle and an aubade are two different forms of courtship songs from the Troubadour tradition. In this case, the film Pastourelle, a sister...

A bouquet from those final arid days of summer.

Terce is the sixth film made during the Covid crises… the yellow greens of spring at last… the beginning of a greater relaxation.

Light in the gardens of the San Francisco Arboretum, photographed in early spring. Elohim are divine beings, the energy of light as creation.