Jon Jost Movies

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 short film by Jon Jost

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 short film by Jon Jost

Jon Jost: "RANT is a discursive portrait of Steven Lack, actor (Cronenberg's Scanners, Alan Moyle's Rubber Gun, Jost's All the Vermeers in New York)...

Impressions from the American Independence Day celebrations in Butte, Montana: evening mood, American flag on the veranda, barbecue, firecrackers,...

Three performances by portuguese dancer and choreographer Vera Mantero.

short Jon Jost film shot on digital video in 2001

A short film by Jon Jost

A short film by Jon Jost

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

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

A short film by Jon Jost

A short film by Jon Jost

Meditative piece of abstract video art rooted in Christian iconography.

Jon Jost describes his 2021 collage-as-narrative feature “Tourists” as “an exploration of many things—the writer Raymond...

Fotos from Richard Avedon's In the American West

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

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