Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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

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...

Primordial spring is in the air, all is tentative.

Carriage Trade was an evolving work-in-progress, and this 61-minute version is the definitive form in which Sonbert realized it, preserved intact...

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...

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

A silent portrait of Dorsky's collaborator exploring her Aztec heritage.

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

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

A document from the weeks that Stan Brakhage was dying of bladder cancer. Dominic Angerame, then head of Canyon Cinema, and I went up to Victoria,...

Autumn lake in San Francisco.

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

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...

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

Like a memory already gone, this place of life.

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

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...

“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...

Compilation of footage shot from 1974-96, developing on Dorsky's theory of polyvalent editing.