Jon Jost Movies

An essay-film on language and theater, on human communication - intellectual in content, but purely poetic in terms of form: image, sound, language,...

Short film by Jon Jost.

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

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

short film by Jon Jost

A political film about Iraq and America.

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

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...

Arbor Fugue is made from “outs” material from the installation piece, Trinity. I felt that the material made for an interesting...

Swimming in Nebraska

Muri Romani is a somewhat radical type of documentary. In appearance, it is utter simplicity. For example, the image of a patch of wall in Rome,...

Empire Prairie, where Lonnie Enright grew up. He's headed home now, to see his ailing father and little brother. Bad things are coming.

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...

A portrait of the London city - including tourist sites and trading markets.

An experimental sketch that came about while Jon Jost was teaching at Italy's National Film School. He strolled through the San Lorenzo district,...

Nas Correntes de Luz da Ria Formosa (In the Rays of Light of Ria Formosa) is a kind of documentary shot over a period of 3 months in summer of 1997...

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

film by Jon Jost

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...