Jonathan Schwartz Movies

The camera remains static to capture the accelerated movements, shot frame-by-frame, of ice skaters in a sunny winter morning. They are not portrayed...

Den of Tigers (2002), by Jonathan Schwartz, lyrically examined the subtle textures of daily life in West Bengal, India. There you could see ankles...

“hit the slopes with colorful exaggerations, take a long sleep, and hope to wake up without an anxious yawn.” – JS

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...

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

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

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

A poetic travelogue through the city of Jerusalem.

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 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...