Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

The recording of the daily events of Dorsky and his partner, artist Jerome Hiler, around Lake Owassa in New Jersey and in Manhattan. The two parts of...

Primordial spring is in the air, all is tentative.

Short film presented by the American Federation of Arts about the physics and characteristics of abstraction. Distorting physical items from science,...

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

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

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...

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

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

"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...

The fourth of the “cinematic songs,” followed by two new works “made by someone closer to passing on, by someone whose sense of...

The ever-presence of death.

Like a memory already gone, this place of life.

“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...

From the moment David Brower first laid eyes on the beauty of the Yosemite Valley, he wanted to the fight to preserve the American wilderness for...

A Naos is the inner room of an ancient Greek temple in which the image of the deity celebrated by that temple is depicted (usually in the form of a...

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

Look Park presents close up shots of a country stream viewed in bright sunlight. The film opens with wide shots of the park to establish the location...

"Compline is a night devotion or prayer, the last of the canonical hours, the final act in a cycle. This film is also the last film I will be able to...

Stoned people, music, movement, fields.

Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle) has three sections. It is in the spirit of the early Chinese landscape colophons, a text added to the horizontal...