Jon Jost Movies

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

Plain Talk is a complex essay-film, a follow-up a decade and some years later to Speaking Directly, and so another State of the Nation discourse,...

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,...

An enchanting moving painting. Digital colour shifts like a palette knife in greasy paint. For those who want to undergo the drug intoxication...

short Jon Jost film shot on digital video in 2001

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

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...

A wedding in Rome. Jost watches a bride and groom on the street, their swinging white dress, his festive suit, walking together on cobblestones....

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

Meditative piece of abstract video art rooted in Christian iconography.

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

Nas Correntes de Luz da Ria Formosa (In the Rays of Light of Ria Formosa) is a kind of documentary shot over a period of 3 months in summer of 1997...

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

Empire Prairie, where Lonnie Enright grew up. He's headed home now, to see his ailing father and little brother. Bad things are coming.

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,...

A short landscape film made by Jon Jost in 2004 in DV.

Short film by Jon Jost.

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

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...

An essay film/documentary perusing matters of art, society, history, and a grab-bag of the author's interests, which also serves as a primer to the...