Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

Warren Sonbert described Divided Loyalties as a film 'about art vs. industry and their various crossovers.' According to film critic Amy Taubin,...

"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...

The first of two devotional songs. Part One of a set of Two Devotional Songs. “The Visitation” is a gradual unfolding, an arrival so to...

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

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

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

Variations is a 1998 American short silent avant-garde film directed by Nathaniel Dorsky. It is the second film in a set of "Four Cinematic Songs,"...

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

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

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...

"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...

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

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...

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

"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...

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

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

The first in a brief series of small personal gifts, made in celebration of the first birthday of Cecilia, the daughter of Antonella Bonfanti who for...

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...