Jon Jost Movies

1964, Autumn in Chicago. This was my 4th film, shot while waiting to go to prison for refusing to serve in the US military. Silent. B&W. I think it...

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,...

A young draft resister finds peace and love in the country, but his solution to the problems of the city may very well be a naive dream.

Impressions from the American Independence Day celebrations in Butte, Montana: evening mood, American flag on the veranda, barbecue, firecrackers,...

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...

A telling story of an unemployed Vietnam vet in Butte, Montana, whose wife leaves him after seven years when she feels there is no longer...

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...

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

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

Ex-con is released from jail, goes through release procedure, buys a gun, tries to pick up girl in bar, tries to sleep, meets up with ex-prison...

Three performances by portuguese dancer and choreographer Vera Mantero.

In the fall of 2003, Jon Jost walks with his camera through the garden of Waseda University in Tokyo. He films the bamboo forest, tree tops, grasses,...

Speaking Directly is an essay-film making for a kind of State of the Nation address, from the perspective of someone other than the President of the...

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.

Vergessensfuge is a meditation on the psychology of obedience and submission, in this instance springing from a handful of photographs taken in the...

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

A man who is dissatisfied with his family life leaves home for weeks at a time, drifting from town to town.

Coming out of an accident with amnesia, Sophie Bauer tries to reshape herself in the eyes of those who knew her best.