Jon Jost Movies

Meditative piece of abstract video art rooted in Christian iconography.

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

short Jon Jost film shot on digital video in 2001

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...

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

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

film by Jon Jost

Three performances by portuguese dancer and choreographer Vera Mantero.

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

A portrait of the London city - including tourist sites and trading markets.

ROMA is a hastily drawn together documentary/essay on Rome, drawn from a large amount of material collected over two or three years, and put together...

short Jon Jost film shot on digital video in 2008

"PRIMARIES is a simple film which merely establishes a definition of 'politics'. Its narrative moves in paragraph blocks, with each sentence...

film by Jon Jost

CHHATTISGARH SKETCHES is a videographic notebook of a journey in India in the spring of 2003. It was made during brief periods free while I was...

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

Swimming in Nebraska

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...

short Jon Jost film shot on digital video in 2001

Travel video by Jon Jost