Jon Jost Movies

Teenage London is trying to find meaning in the world, or a leather jacket of her own. Unaccepted by neither the Mods or the Asian biker gang, she...

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...

A man who is dissatisfied with his family life leaves home for weeks at a time, drifting from town to town.

A scathing portrait of the Hollywood/LA arts milieu of the late 70’s, Chameleon follows the amorphous day of its lead character, an...

Set in the quasi-Biblical splendor of the Mormon Dixie of central Utah, Sure Fire follows the trajectory of an American archetype, the small town...

A movie by Jon Jost, who is the maestro of the American experimental movie world. The film tells us the strange incidents that happen in the ruined...

Reel 18 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

A political film about Iraq and America.

A digital diary reflecting Jon Jost's experiences in India in 2003, when he was teaching filmmaking with digital cameras there. The material in this...

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...

Three performances by portuguese dancer and choreographer Vera Mantero.

A tone poem about problems in a romantic relationship of a middle aged couple.

Vergessensfuge is a meditation on the psychology of obedience and submission, in this instance springing from a handful of photographs taken in the...

A short film by Jon Jost

A fictional/documentary tone-poem, making for a kind of portrait of the town of Walkerville, Montana, and of the lead actor, Gary Winterholler, who...

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,...

Placed in a small seaside area north of Rome, of late popular with the intelligentsia and artists, La Lunga Ombra provides a portrait of 3...

Coming out of an accident with amnesia, Sophie Bauer tries to reshape herself in the eyes of those who knew her best.

A lyrical oblique film.

A short film by Jon Jost