Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

  • 2022
    Caracole (for Mac)

    Caracole (for Mac)

    Caracole (for Mac)

    02022HD

    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...

    Caracole (for Mac)
  • 2017
    Abaton

    Abaton

    Abaton

    02017HD

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

    Abaton
  • 1963
    Catch A Tiger

    Catch A Tiger

    Catch A Tiger

    01963HD

    Catch A Tiger is an educational film that shows some of the spontaneous results in music, dance and art when the nursery school child's innate...

    Catch A Tiger
  • 2016
    Lux Perpetua II

    Lux Perpetua II

    Lux Perpetua II

    02016HD

    “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...

    Lux Perpetua II
  • 2019
    Caracole (for Cecilia)

    Caracole (for Cecilia)

    Caracole (for Cecilia)

    02019HD

    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...

    Caracole (for Cecilia)
  • 2016
    The Dreamer

    The Dreamer

    The Dreamer

    02016HD

    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...

    The Dreamer
  • 2017
    Ode

    Ode

    Ode

    02017HD

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

    Ode
  • 2020
    Lamentations

    Lamentations

    Lamentations

    82020HD

    "Lamentations is a cinematic tumble through diverse dreamscapes in a man-made world." —N.D.

    Lamentations
  • 2008
    Winter

    Winter

    Winter

    02008HD

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

    Winter
  • 2020
    Emanations

    Emanations

    Emanations

    02020HD

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

    Emanations
  • 2016
    Other Archer

    Other Archer

    Other Archer

    02016HD

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

    Other Archer
  • 2020
    Temple Sleep

    Temple Sleep

    Temple Sleep

    02020HD

    "Temple Sleep was photographed and edited during the initial Virus lockdown. The fly casting pools in Golden Gate Park became a mind healing place...

    Temple Sleep
  • 2018
    Monody

    Monody

    Monody

    02018HD

    A monody is an ode sung by a single actor in a Greek tragedy, a poem lamenting a person’s death. In this case, the sixth section of the...

    Monody
  • 2018
    Calyx

    Calyx

    Calyx

    02018HD

    "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...

    Calyx
  • 2022
    Naos

    Naos

    Naos

    02022HD

    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...

    Naos
  • 2019
    Canticles

    Canticles

    Canticles

    02019HD

    A strange autumnal in an empty world, a film of late autumn and ghostly presences.

    Canticles