Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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

A bouquet from those final arid days of summer.

Stoned people, music, movement, fields.

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

All the Kodachrome footage chosen to be worked with to make the film Song and Solitude during years 2005 and 2006. During that period I still had the...

Autumn lake in San Francisco.

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...

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...

In 1948, a small, struggling, semi-professional orchestra in Louisville, Kentucky began a novel project to commission new works from contemporary...

“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...

San Francisco's winter is a season unto itself. Fleeting, rain-soaked, verdant, a brief period of shadows and renewal.

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...

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