Jon Jost Movies

  • 1970
    Country

    Country

    Country

    01970HD

    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.

    Country
  • 1968
    13 Fragments & 3 Narratives from Life

    13 Fragments & 3 Narratives from Life

    13 Fragments & 3 Narratives from Life

    61968HD

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

    13 Fragments & 3 Narratives from Life
  • 1970
    Funkies

    Funkies

    Funkies

    01970HD

    short Jon Jost film shot on digital video in 2001

    Funkies
  • 1987
    Plain Talk and Common Sense (uncommon senses)

    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,...

    Plain Talk and Common Sense (uncommon senses)
  • 2000
    6 Easy Pieces

    6 Easy Pieces

    6 Easy Pieces

    4.62000HD

    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...

    6 Easy Pieces
  • 2019
    Muri Romani II

    Muri Romani II

    Muri Romani II

    02019HD

    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...

    Muri Romani II
  • 1964
    City

    City

    City

    4.51964HD

    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...

    City
  • 2006
    Passages

    Passages

    Passages

    72006HD

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

    Passages
  • 2011
    Images of a Lost City

    Images of a Lost City

    Images of a Lost City

    02011HD

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

    Images of a Lost City
  • 2002
    Arbor Fugue

    Arbor Fugue

    Arbor Fugue

    02002HD

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

    Arbor Fugue
  • 1973
    Speaking Directly

    Speaking Directly

    Speaking Directly

    8.61973HD

    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...

    Speaking Directly
  • 2002
    Tanti Auguri

    Tanti Auguri

    Tanti Auguri

    02002HD

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

    Tanti Auguri
  • 2009
    Amtrak

    Amtrak

    Amtrak

    62009HD

    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...

    Amtrak
  • 2009
    San Lorenzo

    San Lorenzo

    San Lorenzo

    62009HD

    An experimental sketch that came about while Jon Jost was teaching at Italy's National Film School. He strolled through the San Lorenzo district,...

    San Lorenzo
  • 2010
    Swimming in Nebraska

    Swimming in Nebraska

    Swimming in Nebraska

    02010HD

    Swimming in Nebraska

    Swimming in Nebraska
  • 2018
    Again & Again

    Again & Again

    Again & Again

    02018HD

    Again & Again
  • 1986
    Bell Diamond

    Bell Diamond

    Bell Diamond

    6.31986HD

    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...

    Bell Diamond
  • 1970
    Water Song No. 2

    Water Song No. 2

    Water Song No. 2

    01970HD

    short Jon Jost film shot on digital video in 2001

    Water Song No. 2
  • 2004
    A Walk Through Waseda Garden

    A Walk Through Waseda Garden

    A Walk Through Waseda Garden

    32004HD

    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 Walk Through Waseda Garden
  • 2000
    Roma - un ritratto improvvisario

    Roma - un ritratto improvvisario

    Roma - un ritratto improvvisario

    02000HD

    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...

    Roma - un ritratto improvvisario