Jon Jost Movies

Little Italy, Manhattan

Ricky, a dim-witted ex-con, meets Beth, a dim-witted waitress, in an Idaho diner. They take off in his car to Washington and begin an affair. Beth, a...

A short film by Jon Jost

Speaking Directly is an essay-film making for a kind of State of the Nation address, from the perspective of someone other than the President of the...

A scathing portrait of the Hollywood/LA arts milieu of the late 70’s, Chameleon follows the amorphous day of its lead character, an...

An essay film/documentary perusing matters of art, society, history, and a grab-bag of the author's interests, which also serves as a primer to the...

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

Prospect Park. Brooklyn, NY. Sept 21, 2021.

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

Fotos from Richard Avedon's In the American West

A short film by Jon Jost

Short film by Jon Jost.

Meditative piece of abstract video art rooted in Christian iconography.

A short film by Jon Jost

A short film by Jon Jost

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

short Jon Jost film shot on digital video in 2001