Nathaniel Dorsky Movies

An exploration of the cycle of life and the inevitability of passing.

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...

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

The ever-presence of death.

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...

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 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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

A bouquet from those final arid days of summer.

“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...

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...