Jonathan Schwartz Movies

In order to beat inflation and subsidize their alimony checks, three suburban housewives plot to steal $1 million from a large plastic ball which is...

Potential Northwestern fellow Tess Harper lasers through her best friend's wedding planning like the star doctor she hopes to soon become. In fact,...

Refers to Schwartz’s grandfather-in-law’s age during the making of the film–an anniversary celebrated with the gift of piloting a...

From 'A Set Of Miniatures'

A visual essay about the progressive tradition of the United States as seen through grave markers and monuments.

Documentary on the 1953 musical "The Band Wagon."

A stark winter, children at play, and an elder in motion augment words - spoken and sung - of paternal ties and loss.

Schwartz’s work exists as a dialectic all its own, with a kind of wry fascination with things and a tinkerer’s yearning to take them...

A poetic travelogue through the city of Jerusalem.

Schwartz approaches light traveling through water in all its forms. His macro lens strives to get closer to the essence, to the transparency of...

Schwartz explores the effect of light as both mystery and revelation. Glazed water in erubescent evenings discloses the shadowed details of the...

An experimental short by Jonathan Schwartz, which is part of the 33 1/3 series.

When a character moves off screen, we accept the fact that he is out of sight, but he continues to exist in his own capacity at some other place in...

From the 33 1/3 Series (an album of eleven 'in-camera' 16mm films)

…a poem made of imagery from a gardening volume, a book of flower prints, and the sound of a firework display. The images of the colored...

It arrives, in a fog, with songs, through dance or majestic animals or faces (gliding on the street), and in shapes of light, maybe on a large bird...

Situated amid the in between of ascending and descending. It seems hard to land and when this happens something else might disappear.

Jonathan Schwartz is a young American experimental filmmaker who has crafted a body of short, lyrical 16mm films over the past decade. Working with...

A film with a hypnotizing sense of diagonal light and movement. The title refers to the 1917 Hermann Hesse short story, part of his collection of...

That fall it was not intentional to have a Galway Kinnell book on the table near where the caterpillar in the doorway, feeding on our offerings,...