Jon Jost Movies

An essay-film on language and theater, on human communication - intellectual in content, but purely poetic in terms of form: image, sound, language,...

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

“A silent perusal of the Grand Canyon, morning to night, from a single, fixed camera position, by means of constant dissolves spaced a few...

A short film by Jon Jost

A short film by Jon Jost

A short film by Jon Jost

Jon Jost: "RANT is a discursive portrait of Steven Lack, actor (Cronenberg's Scanners, Alan Moyle's Rubber Gun, Jost's All the Vermeers in New York)...

A short film by Jon Jost

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

Crossing the firth of forth

A mule ride.

A short film by Jon Jost

Manhattan, NYC

A short film by Jon Jost

A short film by Jon Jost

1964, Autumn in Chicago. This was my 4th film, shot while waiting to go to prison for refusing to serve in the US military. Silent. B&W. I think it...

A short film by Jon Jost

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

Working for the first time with sound, I made TRAPS, a film scripted in jail on hearing of an acquaintance’s suicide, and LEAH. Both are...

Vergessensfuge is a meditation on the psychology of obedience and submission, in this instance springing from a handful of photographs taken in the...