Jon Jost Movies
- 2015
Blue Strait
Blue Strait72015HD
A tone poem about problems in a romantic relationship of a middle aged couple.
- 1978
Chameleon
Chameleon61978HD
A scathing portrait of the Hollywood/LA arts milieu of the late 70’s, Chameleon follows the amorphous day of its lead character, an...
- 2018
A Death in Mali - Requiem for Empire
A Death in Mali - Requiem for Empire62018HD
The war in Mali is seen through a kaleidoscope that gives the whole thing an unexpected beauty and fascination. An anti-war film. A sung requiem...
- 1976
Angel City
Angel City5.71976HD
A detective fiction mixed with an essay-documentary about Los Angeles, Hollywood and the film industry, Angel City is a satiric comedy with serious...
- 1983
Slow Moves
Slow Moves71983HD
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...
- 1981
Nightshift
Nightshift101981HD
It is night and, in the foyer of a small hotel, a receptionist performs her tasks, unhurried and impassive, her face ghost-white, an emotional mask....
- 1989
Rembrandt Laughing
Rembrandt Laughing4.71989HD
This film is a portrait of the passage of one year in the lives of some San Francisco friends, circa 1988 (before the dot.coming of the city), a slow...
- 2012
Far from Afghanistan
Far from Afghanistan5.32012HD
Taking inspiration from the collaborative 1967 militant anthology film Far from Vietnam, five of the boldest and most prominent American militant...
- 1970
Mr. Right
Mr. Right01970HD
short Jon Jost film shot on digital video in 2008
- 1967
Traps
Traps61967HD
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...
- 2012
The Narcissus Flowers of Katsura-shima
The Narcissus Flowers of Katsura-shima02012HD
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...
- 1993
Frameup
Frameup6.21993HD
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...
- 2007
Over Here
Over Here82007HD
A political film about Iraq and America.
- 2019
Yellow Stone Canyon
Yellow Stone Canyon102019HD
- 2017
Mountains As Mountains, Landscape for Watanabe Shiko
Mountains As Mountains, Landscape for Watanabe Shiko62017HD
Mountain landscapes enveloped in foggy fields that slowly merge into one another. Sometimes the fog clears and details become visible. Sometimes the...
- 2018
Canyon II
Canyon II02018HD
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...
- 2008
Parable
Parable42008HD
After being thrown out of his house, a cowboy hits the road in a senseless wave of robbery, murder and rape. On a bucolic farm a seemingly retarded...
- 2021
Tourists
Tourists02021HD
Jon Jost describes his 2021 collage-as-narrative feature “Tourists” as “an exploration of many things—the writer Raymond...
- 2002
Til Edvard
Til Edvard52002HD
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...
- 2001
Dharma Do as Dharma Does
Dharma Do as Dharma Does02001HD
A 2000 short film directed by Jon Jost. The film screened at International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2002.