Jon Jost Movies

A short film by Jon Jost

A lyrical oblique film.

A short film by Jon Jost

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...

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,...

I walked around Trondheim, shooting this and that, and at one point I saw these girls walking across a little footbridge. After I got the shot of...

A short film by Jon Jost

Prospect Park. Brooklyn, NY. Sept 21, 2021.

A short film by Jon Jost

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 film by Jon Jost

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...

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

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...

Three screens showing documentary footage meld into one.

short Jon Jost film shot on digital video in 2001

A short film by Jon Jost

A short film by Jon Jost

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