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.

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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 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...

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

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

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

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

Schwartz approaches light traveling through water in all its forms. His macro lens strives to get closer to the essence, to the transparency of...

‘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...

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

From 'A Set Of Miniatures'