Jon Jost Movies

Swimming in Nebraska

Reel 18 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

A tone poem about problems in a romantic relationship of a middle aged couple.

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

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

Three performances by portuguese dancer and choreographer Vera Mantero.

film by Jon Jost

A lyrical oblique film.

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

Jon Jost describes his 2021 collage-as-narrative feature “Tourists” as “an exploration of many things—the writer Raymond...

As night falls, the receptionist of a small hotel dutifully performs her routine tasks while strange lodgers descend upon the dark corners of the inn.

CHHATTISGARH SKETCHES is a videographic notebook of a journey in India in the spring of 2003. It was made during brief periods free while I was...

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...

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...

I walked around Trondheim, shooting this and that, and at one point I saw these girls walking across a little footbridge. After I got the shot of...

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

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

A Bohemian and a five-year-old take walks on the outskirts of Osijek.

A digital diary reflecting Jon Jost's experiences in India in 2003, when he was teaching filmmaking with digital cameras there. The material in this...

A detective fiction mixed with an essay-documentary about Los Angeles, Hollywood and the film industry, Angel City is a satiric comedy with serious...