Jon Jost Movies
- 1970
Country
Country01970HD
A young draft resister finds peace and love in the country, but his solution to the problems of the city may very well be a naive dream.
- 1968
13 Fragments & 3 Narratives from Life
13 Fragments & 3 Narratives from Life61968HD
A portrait of alienation is sketched out, focusing on a young art student who passively, but consciously, rejects responsibility for the political...
- 1970
Funkies
Funkies01970HD
short Jon Jost film shot on digital video in 2001
- 1987
Plain Talk and Common Sense (uncommon senses)
Plain Talk and Common Sense (uncommon senses)5.81987HD
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,...
- 2000
6 Easy Pieces
6 Easy Pieces4.62000HD
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...
- 2019
Muri Romani II
Muri Romani II02019HD
Jon Jost: MURI ROMANI II is a "slow film" showing the walls of the center of Rome in a manner which is both beautiful and mysterious, and hopefully...
- 1964
City
City4.51964HD
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...
- 2006
Passages
Passages72006HD
An enchanting moving painting. Digital colour shifts like a palette knife in greasy paint. For those who want to undergo the drug intoxication...
- 2011
Images of a Lost City
Images of a Lost City02011HD
"Imagens de uma cidade perdida" is a portrait of an old area of Lisbon, primarily the Alfama, but also other central areas - Castelo São...
- 2002
Arbor Fugue
Arbor Fugue02002HD
Arbor Fugue is made from “outs” material from the installation piece, Trinity. I felt that the material made for an interesting...
- 1973
Speaking Directly
Speaking Directly8.61973HD
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...
- 2002
Tanti Auguri
Tanti Auguri02002HD
A wedding in Rome. Jost watches a bride and groom on the street, their swinging white dress, his festive suit, walking together on cobblestones....
- 2009
Amtrak
Amtrak62009HD
In October 2008, Jon Jost is standing with his camera in the waiting area of a train station in the USA, filming the other travelers: a...
- 2009
San Lorenzo
San Lorenzo62009HD
An experimental sketch that came about while Jon Jost was teaching at Italy's National Film School. He strolled through the San Lorenzo district,...
- 2010
Swimming in Nebraska
Swimming in Nebraska02010HD
Swimming in Nebraska
- 2018
Again & Again
Again & Again02018HD
- 1986
Bell Diamond
Bell Diamond6.31986HD
A telling story of an unemployed Vietnam vet in Butte, Montana, whose wife leaves him after seven years when she feels there is no longer...
- 1970
Water Song No. 2
Water Song No. 201970HD
short Jon Jost film shot on digital video in 2001
- 2004
A Walk Through Waseda Garden
A Walk Through Waseda Garden32004HD
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,...
- 2000
Roma - un ritratto improvvisario
Roma - un ritratto improvvisario02000HD
ROMA is a hastily drawn together documentary/essay on Rome, drawn from a large amount of material collected over two or three years, and put together...