Jon Jost Movies

Times are hard for Northwestern lumber-mill operators like Ray and his wife Jean. Ray and Jean's lives are thrown into chaos when their daughter...

Coming out of an accident with amnesia, Sophie Bauer tries to reshape herself in the eyes of those who knew her best.

Two HIV-positive young men — a semi-employed film critic and a hot hustler — tear off on a cross-country crime spree.

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.

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...

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...

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

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

A Paul Joyce documentary on the American independent film scene.

Placed in a small seaside area north of Rome, of late popular with the intelligentsia and artists, La Lunga Ombra provides a portrait of 3...

Three performances by portuguese dancer and choreographer Vera Mantero.

short Jon Jost film shot on digital video in 2001

A parable of the missteps of life enacted in the hothouse world of late 1980’s New York, in which the art market and the stock market each...

A detective fiction mixed with an essay-documentary about Los Angeles, Hollywood and the film industry, Angel City is a satiric comedy with serious...

A man who is dissatisfied with his family life leaves home for weeks at a time, drifting from town to town.

A fictional/documentary tone-poem, making for a kind of portrait of the town of Walkerville, Montana, and of the lead actor, Gary Winterholler, who...

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

"Imagens de uma cidade perdida" is a portrait of an old area of Lisbon, primarily the Alfama, but also other central areas - Castelo São...

short film by Jon Jost

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