Jon Jost Movies

A short film by Jon Jost

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

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

A short film by Jon Jost

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...

Mennonites sing on 9/11/2021. NYC

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

A short film by Jon Jost from video imagery by Søren Solkær

A selection from one week's Sheriff's Dept. mug shots, 2012, in Joplin, Missouri. Sequence from the film They had It Coming.

A short film by Jon Jost

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...

A short film by jon Jost

A short film by Jon Jost

A short film by Jon Jost

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

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...

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...

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

A short film by Jon Jost