Jon Jost Movies

A short landscape film made by Jon Jost in 2004 in DV.

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

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...

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

short Jon Jost film shot on digital video in 1999

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

An essay film/documentary perusing matters of art, society, history, and a grab-bag of the author's interests, which also serves as a primer to the...

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

Meditative piece of abstract video art rooted in Christian iconography.

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,...

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

film by Jon Jost

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

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...

A political film about Iraq and America.

Arbor Fugue is made from “outs” material from the installation piece, Trinity. I felt that the material made for an interesting...

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...

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

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

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