Jon Jost Movies

This film is a quiet and poetic documentary which allows a handful of people, survivors of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, to...

Short film by Jon Jost.

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...

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...

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...

"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 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.

short Jon Jost film shot on digital video in 2001

CHHATTISGARH SKETCHES is a videographic notebook of a journey in India in the spring of 2003. It was made during brief periods free while I was...

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

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...

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...

A portrait of the London city - including tourist sites and trading markets.

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,...

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

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

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

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 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...

Ex-con is released from jail, goes through release procedure, buys a gun, tries to pick up girl in bar, tries to sleep, meets up with ex-prison...