Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

Shot in San Francisco from autumn of last year through the winter solstice, Nathaniel Dorsky's Song evinces a cool, mysterious tone as it captures...

Autumn lake in San Francisco.

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

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...

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

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

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

Like a memory already gone, this place of life.

A bouquet from those final arid days of summer.

"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...

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

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

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

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

From the moment David Brower first laid eyes on the beauty of the Yosemite Valley, he wanted to the fight to preserve the American wilderness for...

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...

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

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

Short film presented by the American Federation of Arts about the physics and characteristics of abstraction. Distorting physical items from science,...

Primordial spring is in the air, all is tentative.