Recent Films of Nathaniel Dorsky

We are delighted to present eight new silent 16mm films by local filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky, most of them made during the COVID-19 pandemic, photographed in Golden Gate Park--a refuge for Dorsky during the lockdown--and other parts of San Francisco across different seasons. They are recent additions to our film collection. Dorsky wrote of creating "a film form which, in itself, has all the qualities of being human: tenderness, observation, fear, relaxation, the sense of stepping into the world and pulling back, expansion, contraction, changing, softening, tenderness of heart." We use quotes from his seminal short book, Devotional Cinema, as our film notes, as well as his short descriptions of the films in each program.