Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

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

"In most of my films I have had the burden of adding a title afterwards. Sometimes the word or words would come automatically, but more often with...

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

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

How often and varied we come upon ourselves in this brief life. This film of early spring is a second made in collaboration with Jacob, a young...

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...

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...

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

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

“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...