Jon Jost Movies

short Jon Jost film shot on digital video in 1999

short Jon Jost film shot on digital video in 2001

short film by Jon Jost

Jon Jost: MURI ROMANI II is a "slow film" showing the walls of the center of Rome in a manner which is both beautiful and mysterious, and hopefully...

From Jon Jost's Site: "Canyon is in effect a re-make of a film I shot in 1970 in 16mm, which ran 5 minutes. It was a look down into the Canyon for a...

Three performances by portuguese dancer and choreographer Vera Mantero.

Swimming in Nebraska

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...

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

Ricky, a dim-witted ex-con, meets Beth, a dim-witted waitress, in an Idaho diner. They take off in his car to Washington and begin an affair. Beth, a...

This film is a quiet and poetic documentary which allows a handful of people, survivors of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, to...

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...

Short film by Jon Jost.

Working for the first time with sound, I made TRAPS, a film scripted in jail on hearing of an acquaintance’s suicide, and LEAH. Both are...

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

In the fall of 2003, Jon Jost walks with his camera through the garden of Waseda University in Tokyo. He films the bamboo forest, tree tops, grasses,...

Mountain landscapes enveloped in foggy fields that slowly merge into one another. Sometimes the fog clears and details become visible. Sometimes the...

Impressions from the American Independence Day celebrations in Butte, Montana: evening mood, American flag on the veranda, barbecue, firecrackers,...

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

A portrait of alienation is sketched out, focusing on a young art student who passively, but consciously, rejects responsibility for the political...