Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

In 1948, a small, struggling, semi-professional orchestra in Louisville, Kentucky began a novel project to commission new works from contemporary...

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...

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...

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.

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

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

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

"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...

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

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...

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

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

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

In the last few years I have been making a series of cinematic portraits of young filmmaking friends acting as collaborators in portraiture.There is...

A monody is an ode sung by a single actor in a Greek tragedy, a poem lamenting a person’s death. In this case, the sixth section of the...

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....

In the spirit of the times and my own growing older, a brief tip of the hat… (Nathaniel Dorsky)

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