Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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...

"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.

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

Autumn lake in San Francisco.

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

This year our mid-summer’s night was adorned with a glorious full moon. The weeks and days preceding the solstice were magically alive with...

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...

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

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