Nathaniel Dorsky Filmes

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

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

"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...

A bouquet from those final arid days of summer.

Primordial spring is in the air, all is tentative.

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

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

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

“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.

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

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

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...

“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...

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...

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

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