Jonathan Schwartz Movies

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

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...

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.

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

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

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...

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

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...

a certain worry enveloped in the covering of the ground, illuminated around a face, light on something ferocious, touch upon something gentle.

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

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

“hit the slopes with colorful exaggerations, take a long sleep, and hope to wake up without an anxious yawn.” – JS

From 'A Set Of Miniatures'

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

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 poetic travelogue through the city of Jerusalem.

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

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

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...