Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

Emanations is the third film made during the COVID crises… in this case October and November reveal small joys in a melancholic sea.

A bouquet from those final arid days of summer.

"Temple Sleep was photographed and edited during the initial Virus lockdown. The fly casting pools in Golden Gate Park became a mind healing place...

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

Dorsky’s three earliest works (made when he “entered the realm of poetic filmmaking as an active maker”), all sound films, with...

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

"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...

Primordial spring is in the air, all is tentative.

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

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

This year our mid-summer’s night was adorned with a glorious full moon. The weeks and days preceding the solstice were magically alive with...

"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...

"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...

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

“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...

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

"February was photographed during the first weeks of early spring in San Francisco. For me there is a haunted sense of restlessness in its form, some...

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...

Following a period of trauma and grief, the world around me once again declared itself in the form of one of the loveliest springs I can ever...

A short portrait of a dear friend and collaborator on Devotional Cinema, Nick Hoff.