Jonathan Schwartz Movies

  • 2016
    A Mystery Inside of a Fact

    A Mystery Inside of a Fact

    A Mystery Inside of a Fact

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    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 Mystery Inside of a Fact
  • 2005
    Pre-Hibernation News

    Pre-Hibernation News

    Pre-Hibernation News

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

    Pre-Hibernation News
  • 2005
    For Them Ending

    For Them Ending

    For Them Ending

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    …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...

    For Them Ending
  • 1970
    warm spots

    warm spots

    warm spots

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

    warm spots
  • 2010
    Happy Birthday

    Happy Birthday

    Happy Birthday

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

    Happy Birthday
  • 2011
    A Preface to Red

    A Preface to Red

    A Preface to Red

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    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 Preface to Red
  • 2011
    Between Gold

    Between Gold

    Between Gold

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

    Between Gold
  • 2007
    For A Winter

    For A Winter

    For A Winter

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    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...

    For A Winter
  • 2013
    Animals Moving to the Sound of Drums

    Animals Moving to the Sound of Drums

    Animals Moving to the Sound of Drums

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    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,...

    Animals Moving to the Sound of Drums
  • 2005
    Sunbeam Hunter

    Sunbeam Hunter

    Sunbeam Hunter

    02005HD

    ‘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...

    Sunbeam Hunter