Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

Ossuary was made up of the Kodachrome outs and trims from more than a decade of shooting and making films in Kodachrome. This new film, Dreams Reveal...

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

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...

Stoned people, music, movement, fields.

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

“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...

Like a memory already gone, this place of life.

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

Nathaniel Dorsky's Spring conjures an abundant return of light and a retreat into nature so dense and rich that the film itself becomes a sort of...

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

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...

Primordial spring is in the air, all is tentative.

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

A bouquet from those final arid days of summer.

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

An exploration of the cycle of life and the inevitability of passing.

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...

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...

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