Jon Jost Movies

An experimental sketch that came about while Jon Jost was teaching at Italy's National Film School. He strolled through the San Lorenzo district,...

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,...

Short film by Jon Jost.

A telling story of an unemployed Vietnam vet in Butte, Montana, whose wife leaves him after seven years when she feels there is no longer...

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

"Imagens de uma cidade perdida" is a portrait of an old area of Lisbon, primarily the Alfama, but also other central areas - Castelo São...

An improvised love story between a boy and girl in Paris.

A political film about Iraq and America.

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...

Nas Correntes de Luz da Ria Formosa (In the Rays of Light of Ria Formosa) is a kind of documentary shot over a period of 3 months in summer of 1997...

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

A lyrical oblique film.

Meditative piece of abstract video art rooted in Christian iconography.

film by Jon Jost

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...

It is night and, in the foyer of a small hotel, a receptionist performs her tasks, unhurried and impassive, her face ghost-white, an emotional mask....

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...

Mountain landscapes enveloped in foggy fields that slowly merge into one another. Sometimes the fog clears and details become visible. Sometimes 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...

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