Jon Jost Movies

The famous French film director Jean-Luc Godard is interviewed by British film theorist Peter Wollen and the editor of Framework Don Ranveaud. He...

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...

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...

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

Jon Jost: "RANT is a discursive portrait of Steven Lack, actor (Cronenberg's Scanners, Alan Moyle's Rubber Gun, Jost's All the Vermeers in New York)...

Times are hard for Northwestern lumber-mill operators like Ray and his wife Jean. Ray and Jean's lives are thrown into chaos when their daughter...

film by Jon Jost

Swimming in Nebraska

"PRIMARIES is a simple film which merely establishes a definition of 'politics'. Its narrative moves in paragraph blocks, with each sentence...

Travel video by Jon Jost

Three performances by portuguese dancer and choreographer Vera Mantero.

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

short Jon Jost film shot on digital video in 1999

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...

A lyrical oblique film.

A portrait of alienation is sketched out, focusing on a young art student who passively, but consciously, rejects responsibility for the political...

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...

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

A film that Jon Jost dedicated to his daughter Clara, an artistically designed home movie and at the same time a look back at his life, mostly...