Nathan is a filmmaker and professor with a PhD in Film and Visual Studies from Harvard University. His short film, Wag, will premiere in mid-2026.

As an artist and consultant, writer and speaker, Nathan engages surprising and subversive aesthetic practices in order to illuminate unforeseen goodness – and catalyze collective pursuits of human flourishing.

Nathan is particularly committed to pursuing how cinema, like a suncatcher, has the capacity to absorb and transform light in ways that blow our minds and hearts for the better.

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wag

the young santa

surface tensions

A short surreal "melodrama of the fantastic," shot on 16mm in a historic craftsman house; and inspired by the gothic stylings of German expressionism and Douglas Sirk technicolor. Wag marshals deadpan comedy and transcendent fantasia to consider the transcendental power of love to reconcile our interpersonal divides.

a christmas special about the Miracle of Christmas, by way of Jim Henson or David Cronenberg

"works equally well as a small primer on media and a memoir of growing up in a thoroughly mediated age."

-Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times Film Critic

get in touch

Find me on Instagram here.

To propose a writing project, inquire about creative consultation, develop teaching curriculum, book a speaking engagement, or anything in-between, please contact me here.