Jonathan Schwartz Movies

Documentary on the 1953 musical "The Band Wagon."

Darcy Blake has the perfect job – she works for Harrington House, a successful greeting card company, in the editorial department. Writing...

Potential Northwestern fellow Tess Harper lasers through her best friend's wedding planning like the star doctor she hopes to soon become. In fact,...

Schwartz explores the effect of light as both mystery and revelation. Glazed water in erubescent evenings discloses the shadowed details of the...

In order to beat inflation and subsidize their alimony checks, three suburban housewives plot to steal $1 million from a large plastic ball which is...

Refers to Schwartz’s grandfather-in-law’s age during the making of the film–an anniversary celebrated with the gift of piloting a...

From the 33 1/3 Series (an album of eleven 'in-camera' 16mm films)

An experimental short by Jonathan Schwartz, which is part of the 33 1/3 series.

Den of Tigers (2002), by Jonathan Schwartz, lyrically examined the subtle textures of daily life in West Bengal, India. There you could see ankles...

A visual essay about the progressive tradition of the United States as seen through grave markers and monuments.

A stark winter, children at play, and an elder in motion augment words - spoken and sung - of paternal ties and loss.

Schwartz approaches light traveling through water in all its forms. His macro lens strives to get closer to the essence, to the transparency of...

…a poem made of imagery from a gardening volume, a book of flower prints, and the sound of a firework display. The images of the colored...

a certain worry enveloped in the covering of the ground, illuminated around a face, light on something ferocious, touch upon something gentle.

From 'A Set Of Miniatures'

It's an ironically dark response to its title. It pictures an oversaturated, white and blue stop motion animation of the double image of a man...

A poetic travelogue through the city of Jerusalem.

Situated amid the in between of ascending and descending. It seems hard to land and when this happens something else might disappear.

Schwartz’s poetic 16mm work meditates on the sights and sounds of slowly crumbling glaciers, charting an interior dance between desperation and...

“hit the slopes with colorful exaggerations, take a long sleep, and hope to wake up without an anxious yawn.” – JS