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.

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.

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...

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

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...

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

This film is a portrait of the passage of one year in the lives of some San Francisco friends, circa 1988 (before the dot.coming of the city), a slow...

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

Perhaps at first glance, the filmography of Silvio Narizzano appears unremarkable. Thanks to his sleeper hit Georgy Girl (1966), he's known largely...

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 portrait of alienation is sketched out, focusing on a young art student who passively, but consciously, rejects responsibility for the political...

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...

Jon Jost: MURI ROMANI II is a "slow film" showing the walls of the center of Rome in a manner which is both beautiful and mysterious, and hopefully...

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

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...

A lyrical oblique film.

Central Park, Manhattan

Ex-con is released from jail, goes through release procedure, buys a gun, tries to pick up girl in bar, tries to sleep, meets up with ex-prison...