Jon Jost Movies

Reel 18 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

Arbor Fugue is made from “outs” material from the installation piece, Trinity. I felt that the material made for an interesting...

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

short Jon Jost film shot on digital video in 2001

An essay-film on language and theater, on human communication - intellectual in content, but purely poetic in terms of form: image, sound, language,...

"Imagens de uma cidade perdida" is a portrait of an old area of Lisbon, primarily the Alfama, but also other central areas - Castelo São...

A movie by Jon Jost, who is the maestro of the American experimental movie world. The film tells us the strange incidents that happen in the ruined...

film by Jon Jost

A political film about Iraq and America.

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

Meditative piece of abstract video art rooted in Christian iconography.

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...

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

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...

A homage to nature and a plea for a careful approach to it. In one of his early films, Jon Jost shows impressions of a stream in the forest and a...

Bowman Lake is a single image film of Bowman Lake, sunrise to sunset.

Travel video by Jon Jost

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...

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