Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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

Emanations is the third film made during the COVID crises… in this case October and November reveal small joys in a melancholic sea.

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...

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

Dark and stately is the warm, graceful tenderness of the Sarabande.

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

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...

“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...

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

The ever-presence of death.

"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...

A bouquet from those final arid days of summer.

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...

An aubade is a poem or morning song evoking the first rays of the sun at daybreak. Often, it includes the atmosphere of lovers parting. This film is...