Jon Jost Movies

A short film by Jon Jost

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 2001

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...

A short film by Jon Jost

A short film by Jon Jost

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...

Three performances by portuguese dancer and choreographer Vera Mantero.

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,...

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

A short film by Jon Jost

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

Mennonites sing on 9/11/2021. NYC

A short film by Jon Jost

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...

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

short Jon Jost film shot on digital video in 2008

A short film by Jon Jost

A short film by Jon Jost