Jon Jost Movies

The wood song weaved as if it were a dream.

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

short Jon Jost film shot on digital video in 1999

short film by Jon Jost

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,...

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

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...

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

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

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...

Travel video by Jon Jost

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

film by Jon Jost

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,...

A young draft resister finds peace and love in the country, but his solution to the problems of the city may very well be a naive dream.

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...

short Jon Jost film shot on digital video in 2001

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...

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...