Jon Jost Movie Trailers

Blue Strait Trailer (2015)

18 September 2015

A tone poem about problems in a romantic relationship of a middle aged couple.

Nightshift Trailer (1981)

14 August 1981

As night falls, the receptionist of a small hotel dutifully performs her routine tasks while strange lodgers descend upon the dark corners of the inn.

Mod Fuck Explosion Trailer (1994)

21 April 1994

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 tries to find her own path.

Texas, Osijek Trailer (1987)

01 November 1987

A Bohemian and a five-year-old take walks on the outskirts of Osijek.

Oui Non Trailer (2002)

01 August 2002

An improvised love story between a boy and girl in Paris.

Last Chants for a Slow Dance Trailer (1977)

31 August 1977

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

A bluesy lyrical romance of two ugly-ducklings who meet on the Golden Gate Bridge and after a brief and awkward courtship, live together with the usual problems of money and work, take flight to an illusory freedom on the road, and dances inexorably to a drab doom.

The Bed You Sleep In Trailer (1993)

10 September 1993

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 writes home from college, claiming to have a horrifying revelation.

Pequenos Milagres Trailer (2019)

20 November 2019

A film that Jon Jost dedicated to his daughter Clara, an artistically designed home movie and at the same time a look back at his life, mostly commented off-screen by Jon Jost.

Another Country Trailer (2000)

29 October 2000

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

Rembrandt Laughing Trailer (1989)

12 February 1989

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 to Terms Trailer (2013)

24 November 2013

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

Muri Romani Trailer (2000)

14 October 2000

Muri Romani is a somewhat radical type of documentary. In appearance, it is utter simplicity. For example, the image of a patch of wall in Rome, today.

Traps Trailer (1967)

01 September 1967

Working for the first time with sound, I made TRAPS, a film scripted in jail on hearing of an acquaintance’s suicide, and LEAH.

Frameup Trailer (1993)

19 January 1993

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.

Not Getting Stoned with Jon Jost Trailer (2023)

30 July 2023

Caveh gets stoned. Jon Jost doesn't.

Over Here Trailer (2007)

24 May 2007

A political film about Iraq and America.

Speaking Directly Trailer (1973)

01 January 1973

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 United States, circa 1973-5.

The Narcissus Flowers of Katsura-shima Trailer (2012)

12 June 2012

This film is a quiet and poetic documentary which allows a handful of people, survivors of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, to tell of their experiences on that day.

IRAN Trailer (2021)

21 March 2021

A short film by Jon Jost

Mountains As Mountains, Landscape for Watanabe Shiko Trailer (2017)

26 March 2017

Mountain landscapes enveloped in foggy fields that slowly merge into one another. Sometimes the fog clears and details become visible.

Tourists Trailer (2021)

01 January 2021

Jon Jost describes his 2021 collage-as-narrative feature “Tourists” as “an exploration of many things—the writer Raymond Carver, the town Port Angeles, the nature of writing stories and poetry, the interplay between writing and acting, the nature of fiction and truth.