Jonathan Schwartz Movies

In order to beat inflation and subsidize their alimony checks, three suburban housewives plot to steal $1 million from a large plastic ball which is...

Potential Northwestern fellow Tess Harper lasers through her best friend's wedding planning like the star doctor she hopes to soon become. In fact,...

Documentary on the 1953 musical "The Band Wagon."

When a character moves off screen, we accept the fact that he is out of sight, but he continues to exist in his own capacity at some other place in...

A visual essay about the progressive tradition of the United States as seen through grave markers and monuments.

The camera remains static to capture the accelerated movements, shot frame-by-frame, of ice skaters in a sunny winter morning. They are not portrayed...

Schwartz’s poetic 16mm work meditates on the sights and sounds of slowly crumbling glaciers, charting an interior dance between desperation and...

(Maybe) of finding neutral signs in a non-neutral place while tension sits, increases, is shared, builds, or possibly lessens–or maybe is...

From the 33 1/3 Series (an album of eleven 'in-camera' 16mm films)

Den of Tigers (2002), by Jonathan Schwartz, lyrically examined the subtle textures of daily life in West Bengal, India. There you could see ankles...

A film with a hypnotizing sense of diagonal light and movement. The title refers to the 1917 Hermann Hesse short story, part of his collection of...

Jonathan Schwartz is a young American experimental filmmaker who has crafted a body of short, lyrical 16mm films over the past decade. Working with...

That fall it was not intentional to have a Galway Kinnell book on the table near where the caterpillar in the doorway, feeding on our offerings,...

Schwartz’s work exists as a dialectic all its own, with a kind of wry fascination with things and a tinkerer’s yearning to take them...

…a poem made of imagery from a gardening volume, a book of flower prints, and the sound of a firework display. The images of the colored...

A poetic travelogue through the city of Jerusalem.

Light painting and nature imagery are captured in 13 shots of different points of luminescence, on the 13th anniversary of Schwartz’s...

«Swimming or fluidly moving in pattern - like lust or love or something weird. A communication halt: cue the apes to speak or make...

It's an ironically dark response to its title. It pictures an oversaturated, white and blue stop motion animation of the double image of a man...

Refers to Schwartz’s grandfather-in-law’s age during the making of the film–an anniversary celebrated with the gift of piloting a...