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.

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

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

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

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 stark winter, children at play, and an elder in motion augment words - spoken and sung - of paternal ties and loss.

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

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

A poetic travelogue through the city of Jerusalem.

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...

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

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

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

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,...

From 'A Set Of Miniatures'

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...

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