Jonathan Schwartz Movies

  • 2013
    Bat El Drinking Water and Other Signs

    Bat El Drinking Water and Other Signs

    Bat El Drinking Water and Other Signs

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    (Maybe) of finding neutral signs in a non-neutral place while tension sits, increases, is shared, builds, or possibly lessens–or maybe is...

    Bat El Drinking Water and Other Signs
  • 2006
    A Logic Sore

    A Logic Sore

    A Logic Sore

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

    A Logic Sore
  • 2008
    In A Year With 13 Deaths

    In A Year With 13 Deaths

    In A Year With 13 Deaths

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    Light painting and nature imagery are captured in 13 shots of different points of luminescence, on the 13th anniversary of Schwartz’s...

    In A Year With 13 Deaths
  • 2012
    If the War Continues

    If the War Continues

    If the War Continues

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    A film with a hypnotizing sense of diagonal light and movement. The title refers to the 1917 Hermann Hesse short story, part of his collection of...

    If the War Continues
  • 2005
    For Them Ending

    For Them Ending

    For Them Ending

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    …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...

    For Them Ending
  • 2007
    The Wedding Present

    The Wedding Present

    The Wedding Present

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    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...

    The Wedding Present
  • 2010
    New Year Sun

    New Year Sun

    New Year Sun

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

    New Year Sun
  • 2016
    Winter Beyond Winter

    Winter Beyond Winter

    Winter Beyond Winter

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

    Winter Beyond Winter
  • 2014
    A Certain Worry

    A Certain Worry

    A Certain Worry

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

    A Certain Worry
  • 2011
    A Preface to Red

    A Preface to Red

    A Preface to Red

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    Schwartz’s work exists as a dialectic all its own, with a kind of wry fascination with things and a tinkerer’s yearning to take them...

    A Preface to Red