Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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

"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...

“Renga is a linked-verse form of Japanese poetry that, though still practiced today, reached its peak between the 13th and 16th centuries....

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

“This modest little film completely turned me around. Up until that point I had been using the world to make a film, and what Jerome showed me...

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...

A dedication to Jane Wodening and an ode to the winter sun.

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,...

Ariel is a highly energetic and colorful divertissement of abstract film achieved with improvised home color processing and a physical, almost...

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

Perhaps the most delicately tactile in the series of four cinematic songs, Love's Refrain rests moment to moment on its own surface. It is a coda in...

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

A bouquet from those final arid days of summer.

In his contribution to the On Art and Artists interview series, Nathaniel Dorsky (b.1943) begins by discussing his childhood love of the John Ford...

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

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

After a lifetime, two mutual friends, George Kuchar and Carla Liss, passed away during the same period of time.

During a tour with my films in Spain last spring, I had the pleasure of being honoured with the attention of three young people who offered me 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 brief lost moment lies between.” — Nathaniel Dorsky