Jon Jost Movies

An essay film/documentary perusing matters of art, society, history, and a grab-bag of the author's interests, which also serves as a primer to the...

An improvised love story between a boy and girl in Paris.

The Portuguese Revolution (1974-75) seen through the eyes of some of the most important photographers and filmmakers that witnessed the event. Their...

A 2000 short film directed by Jon Jost. The film screened at International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2002.

A bluesy lyrical romance of two ugly-ducklings who meet on the Golden Gate Bridge and after a brief and awkward courtship, live together with the...

After being thrown out of his house, a cowboy hits the road in a senseless wave of robbery, murder and rape. On a bucolic farm a seemingly retarded...

In October 2008, Jon Jost is standing with his camera in the waiting area of ​​a train station in the USA, filming the other travelers: a...

Meditative piece of abstract video art rooted in Christian iconography.

A wedding in Rome. Jost watches a bride and groom on the street, their swinging white dress, his festive suit, walking together on cobblestones....

A telling story of an unemployed Vietnam vet in Butte, Montana, whose wife leaves him after seven years when she feels there is no longer...

The wood song weaved as if it were a dream.

This film is a record of the first Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. It reflects the various ways the festival was given shape by...

A short landscape film made by Jon Jost in 2004 in DV.

Vergessensfuge is a meditation on the psychology of obedience and submission, in this instance springing from a handful of photographs taken in the...

Travel video by Jon Jost

The aesthetic moves progressively from loose “underground” means using expressionistic camera movement, multiple exposures, droning...

Placed in a small seaside area north of Rome, of late popular with the intelligentsia and artists, La Lunga Ombra provides a portrait of 3...

short Jon Jost film shot on digital video in 2001

A scathing portrait of the Hollywood/LA arts milieu of the late 70’s, Chameleon follows the amorphous day of its lead character, an...