Jonathan Schwartz Movies

In order to beat inflation and subsidize their alimony checks, three suburban housewives plot to steal $1 million from a large plastic ball which is...

Potential Northwestern fellow Tess Harper lasers through her best friend's wedding planning like the star doctor she hopes to soon become. In fact,...

Documentary on the 1953 musical "The Band Wagon."

A visual essay about the progressive tradition of the United States as seen through grave markers and monuments.

a certain worry enveloped in the covering of the ground, illuminated around a face, light on something ferocious, touch upon something gentle.

(Maybe) of finding neutral signs in a non-neutral place while tension sits, increases, is shared, builds, or possibly lessens–or maybe is...

From the 33 1/3 Series (an album of eleven 'in-camera' 16mm films)

“hit the slopes with colorful exaggerations, take a long sleep, and hope to wake up without an anxious yawn.” – JS

Light painting and nature imagery are captured in 13 shots of different points of luminescence, on the 13th anniversary of Schwartz’s...

When a character moves off screen, we accept the fact that he is out of sight, but he continues to exist in his own capacity at some other place in...

Schwartz’s poetic 16mm work meditates on the sights and sounds of slowly crumbling glaciers, charting an interior dance between desperation and...

«Swimming or fluidly moving in pattern - like lust or love or something weird. A communication halt: cue the apes to speak or make...

An experimental short by Jonathan Schwartz, which is part of the 33 1/3 series.

A film with a hypnotizing sense of diagonal light and movement. The title refers to the 1917 Hermann Hesse short story, part of his collection of...

Schwartz’s work exists as a dialectic all its own, with a kind of wry fascination with things and a tinkerer’s yearning to take them...

…a poem made of imagery from a gardening volume, a book of flower prints, and the sound of a firework display. The images of the colored...

‘With a car from 1966-1977 and a manual for violence prevention, you drive. The distance is now your compass so follow the shadows to your...

A poetic travelogue through the city of Jerusalem.

Situated amid the in between of ascending and descending. It seems hard to land and when this happens something else might disappear.

The camera remains static to capture the accelerated movements, shot frame-by-frame, of ice skaters in a sunny winter morning. They are not portrayed...