Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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

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...

The psychological and emotional motivations of gay sexual fetish, especially relating to gay male teens maturing into men and their sexual exploits.

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...

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...

Before he impressed the literary world with his books, author Paul Bowles was a music composer, collaborating with the likes of Aaron Copland and...

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

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

Arbor Vitae is a gesture towards a cinema of pure being. Its atmosphere is haunted by the period in which it was shot, the year of 1999. Although the...

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

Summer in San Francisco is a dry and rainless season. The film, Summer, although photographed during this period of time, is not so much a...

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...

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...

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

17 Reasons Why was photographed with a variety of semi-ancient regular 8 cameras and is projected unslit as 16mm. The four image format gives a look...

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...

The ever-presence of death.

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

"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...