Jon Jost Movies

A political film about Iraq and America.

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...

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

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 lyrical oblique film.

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

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...

short Jon Jost film shot on digital video in 2001

short Jon Jost film shot on digital video in 2001

film by Jon Jost

short film by Jon Jost

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

Reel 18 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

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

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

short Jon Jost film shot on digital video in 2008

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...

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

I walked around Trondheim, shooting this and that, and at one point I saw these girls walking across a little footbridge. After I got the shot of...