Jon Jost Movie Trailers
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Tanti Auguri Trailer (2002)
01 January 2002
A wedding in Rome. Jost watches a bride and groom on the street, their swinging white dress, his festive suit, walking together on cobblestones.
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.
Bell Diamond Trailer (1986)
17 March 1986
A telling story of an unemployed Vietnam vet in Butte, Montana, whose wife leaves him after seven years when she feels there is no longer communication between them and - more painfully and pointedly - because she is unable to have a child owing to his sterility from exposure to Agent Orange.
Plain Talk and Common Sense (uncommon senses) Trailer (1987)
06 September 1987
Plain Talk is a complex essay-film, a follow-up a decade and some years later to Speaking Directly, and so another State of the Nation discourse, made for Britain's Channel Four in the year 1986-87.
Blue Strait Trailer (2015)
18 September 2015
A tone poem about problems in a romantic relationship of a middle aged couple.
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.
Slow Moves Trailer (1983)
01 January 1983
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.
Far from Afghanistan Trailer (2012)
22 August 2012
Taking inspiration from the collaborative 1967 militant anthology film Far from Vietnam, five of the boldest and most prominent American militant filmmakers unite to create this searing (and seething) omnibus work, employing a variety of approaches to reveal the hidden costs of the United States' (and Canada's) most expensive and longest-running war.
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.
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.
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.
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.
murmuration Trailer (2022)
22 April 2022
A short film by Jon Jost from video imagery by Søren Solkær
Country Trailer (1968)
01 January 1968
A young draft resister finds peace and love in the country, but his solution to the problems of the city may very well be a naive dream.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Trailer (2021)
22 September 2021
Prospect Park. Brooklyn, NY. Sept 21, 2021.