Screenplay: Nathaniel Dorsky

Direction Nathaniel Dorsky

Plot A pastourelle and an aubade are two different forms of courtship songs from the Troubadour tradition. In this case, the film Pastourelle, a sister film to Aubade, is in the...

Direction Nathaniel Dorsky

Plot Experimental filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky composed a tone poem devoted to images capturing the change of seasons as well as the stuff of daily life. Shot over four years, the silent...

Direction Nathaniel Dorsky

Plot Threnody is a somber but luminous progression through a delicate articulation of earthly phenomena… an offering to a friend who died. It is the second of two devotional songs, the...

Direction Nathaniel Dorsky

Plot "Alaya manages a perfection of ‘musical’ light across a space of time greater in length than would seem possible... and with minimal means of line and tone. After about three...

Direction Nathaniel Dorsky

Plot 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...

Direction Nathaniel Dorsky

Direction Nathaniel Dorsky

Plot Dark and stately is the warm, graceful tenderness of the Sarabande. (N.D.)

Direction Nathaniel Dorsky

Plot Nathaniel Dorsky's August and After is dedicated to two recently departed friends, legendary filmmaker George Kuchar and actress Carla Liss. The film shows them vibrantly, resiliently alive shortly before their...

Direction Nathaniel Dorsky

Plot Variations blossomed forth while shooting additional material for Triste. What tender chaos, what current of luminous rhymes might cinema reveal unbridled from the daytime word? During the Bronze Age a...

Direction Nathaniel Dorsky

Plot Dorsky delves deep into multiple (under)worlds, sometimes uncanny and surreal, reflected and refracted through various natural and man-made obfuscations like grids, glass, water and brush.

Direction Nathaniel Dorsky

Plot Elohim was photographed in early spring, the week of the lunar new year, the very spirit of creation.

Direction Nathaniel Dorsky

Plot An aubade is a poem or morning song evoking the first rays of the sun at daybreak. Often, it includes the atmosphere of lovers parting. This film is my first...

Direction Nathaniel Dorsky

Plot In Stoic philosophy “pneuma” is the “soul” or fiery wind permeating the body, and at death survives the body but as impersonal energy. Similarly, the “world pneuma” permeates the details...

Direction Nathaniel Dorsky

Direction Nathaniel Dorsky

Plot In the spirit of the times and my own growing older, a brief tip of the hat… (Nathaniel Dorsky)

Direction Nathaniel Dorsky

Plot Ariel is a highly energetic and colorful divertissement of abstract film achieved with improvised home color processing and a physical, almost sculptural manipulation of the film surface.

Direction Nathaniel Dorsky

Plot Terce is the sixth film made during the Covid crises… the yellow greens of spring at last… the beginning of a greater relaxation. (Nathaniel Dorsky)

Direction Nathaniel Dorsky

Plot Monody, shot in the fading autumnal glory is an energized declaration of the end.

Direction Nathaniel Dorsky

Plot Abaton was photographed a few weeks later in the full ripeness of spring, the very purity and intoxication of passion.

Direction Nathaniel Dorsky

Plot "February was photographed during the first weeks of early spring in San Francisco. For me there is a haunted sense of restlessness in its form, some desire for a new...