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."

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

A poetic travelogue through the city of Jerusalem.

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

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

It arrives, in a fog, with songs, through dance or majestic animals or faces (gliding on the street), and in shapes of light, maybe on a large bird...

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

‘With a car from 1966-1977 and a manual for violence prevention, you drive. The distance is now your compass so follow the shadows to your...

…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...

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...

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...

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...

Situated amid the in between of ascending and descending. It seems hard to land and when this happens something else might disappear.

Schwartz explores the effect of light as both mystery and revelation. Glazed water in erubescent evenings discloses the shadowed details of the...

From 'A Set Of Miniatures'

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

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