Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

Carriage Trade was an evolving work-in-progress, and this 61-minute version is the definitive form in which Sonbert realized it, preserved intact...

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...

"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...

A contemplative portrait of experimental filmmakers Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler, and their shared devotion to the art of seeing that has shaped...

During a tour with my films in Spain last spring, I had the pleasure of being honoured with the attention of three young people who offered me the...

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...

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...

A document from the weeks that Stan Brakhage was dying of bladder cancer. Dominic Angerame, then head of Canyon Cinema, and I went up to Victoria,...

The Kodachrome Dailies consist of all the Kodachrome footage chosen to be worked with to make the film Song and Solitude during years 2005 and 2006....

A silent portrait of Dorsky's collaborator exploring her Aztec heritage.

Sand, wind, and light intermingle with the emulsions. The viewer is the star.

"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...

Variations is a 1998 American short silent avant-garde film directed by Nathaniel Dorsky. It is the second film in a set of "Four Cinematic Songs,"...

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...

Epilogue is the seventh film in the Arboretum Cycle, a descent into the dark damp earth, a period of dying.

“This modest little film completely turned me around. Up until that point I had been using the world to make a film, and what Jerome showed me...

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