Jon Jost Filmes

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,...

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...

An American independent director comes to Italy to shoot a film. But inconveniences and obstacles stand in the way at every step. These are the years...

A portrait of alienation is sketched out, focusing on a young art student who passively, but consciously, rejects responsibility for the political...

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...

Plain Talk is a complex essay-film, a follow-up a decade and some years later to Speaking Directly, and so another State of the Nation discourse,...

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

A film that Jon Jost dedicated to his daughter Clara, an artistically designed home movie and at the same time a look back at his life, mostly...

Jon Jost: MURI ROMANI II is a "slow film" showing the walls of the center of Rome in a manner which is both beautiful and mysterious, and hopefully...

A homage to nature and a plea for a careful approach to it. In one of his early films, Jon Jost shows impressions of a stream in the forest and a...

An enchanting moving painting. Digital colour shifts like a palette knife in greasy paint. For those who want to undergo the drug intoxication...

In October 2008, Jon Jost is standing with his camera in the waiting area of ​​a train station in the USA, filming the other travelers: a...

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...

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

The war in Mali is seen through a kaleidoscope that gives the whole thing an unexpected beauty and fascination. An anti-war film. A sung requiem...

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...

A lyrical oblique film.

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

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

After being thrown out of his house, a cowboy hits the road in a senseless wave of robbery, murder and rape. On a bucolic farm a seemingly retarded...