Jon Jost Movies

  • 2015
    Blue Strait

    Blue Strait

    Blue Strait

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

    Blue Strait
  • 1978
    Chameleon

    Chameleon

    Chameleon

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

    Chameleon
  • 2018
    A Death in Mali - Requiem for Empire

    A Death in Mali - Requiem for Empire

    A Death in Mali - Requiem for Empire

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    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...

    A Death in Mali - Requiem for Empire
  • 1976
    Angel City

    Angel City

    Angel City

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

    Angel City
  • 1983
    Slow Moves

    Slow Moves

    Slow Moves

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    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...

    Slow Moves
  • 1981
    Nightshift

    Nightshift

    Nightshift

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    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....

    Nightshift
  • 1989
    Rembrandt Laughing

    Rembrandt Laughing

    Rembrandt Laughing

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    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...

    Rembrandt Laughing
  • 2012
    Far from Afghanistan

    Far from Afghanistan

    Far from Afghanistan

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    Taking inspiration from the collaborative 1967 militant anthology film Far from Vietnam, five of the boldest and most prominent American militant...

    Far from Afghanistan
  • 1970
    Mr. Right

    Mr. Right

    Mr. Right

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    short Jon Jost film shot on digital video in 2008

    Mr. Right
  • 1967
    Traps

    Traps

    Traps

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    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...

    Traps
  • 2012
    The Narcissus Flowers of Katsura-shima

    The Narcissus Flowers of Katsura-shima

    The Narcissus Flowers of Katsura-shima

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    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...

    The Narcissus Flowers of Katsura-shima
  • 1993
    Frameup

    Frameup

    Frameup

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    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...

    Frameup
  • 2007
    Over Here

    Over Here

    Over Here

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    A political film about Iraq and America.

    Over Here
  • 2019
    Yellow Stone Canyon

    Yellow Stone Canyon

    Yellow Stone Canyon

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    Yellow Stone Canyon
  • 2017
    Mountains As Mountains, Landscape for Watanabe Shiko

    Mountains As Mountains, Landscape for Watanabe Shiko

    Mountains As Mountains, Landscape for Watanabe Shiko

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    Mountain landscapes enveloped in foggy fields that slowly merge into one another. Sometimes the fog clears and details become visible. Sometimes the...

    Mountains As Mountains, Landscape for Watanabe Shiko
  • 2018
    Canyon II

    Canyon II

    Canyon II

    02018HD

    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...

    Canyon II
  • 2008
    Parable

    Parable

    Parable

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    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...

    Parable
  • 2021
    Tourists

    Tourists

    Tourists

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

    Tourists
  • 2002
    Til Edvard

    Til Edvard

    Til Edvard

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    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...

    Til Edvard
  • 2001
    Dharma Do as Dharma Does

    Dharma Do as Dharma Does

    Dharma Do as Dharma Does

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

    Dharma Do as Dharma Does