Jon Jost Movies

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

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

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

Teenage London is trying to find meaning in the world, or a leather jacket of her own. Unaccepted by neither the Mods or the Asian biker gang, she...

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...

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...

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.

Over 30 filmmakers and friends of Strand Releasing have come together to honor the company’s indelible contribution to independent cinema over...

A Paul Joyce documentary on the American independent film scene.

Newport, Oregon. In a coastal town, Jeff and his wife Mattie work together facing the economic shifts. One son Chris, is unemployed; the other,...

This film is a record of the first Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. It reflects the various ways the festival was given shape by...

One day, father makes a shocking decision in a family gathering. The family disagrees with it and against him in the very beginning. However, they...

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

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

The Portuguese Revolution (1974-75) seen through the eyes of some of the most important photographers and filmmakers that witnessed the event. Their...

An American independent director comes to Italy to shoot a film. But inconveniences and obstacles stand in the way at every step. These are the years...

Set in the quasi-Biblical splendor of the Mormon Dixie of central Utah, Sure Fire follows the trajectory of an American archetype, the small town...

The famous French film director Jean-Luc Godard is interviewed by British film theorist Peter Wollen and the editor of Framework Don Ranveaud. He...

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...