Jonathan Schwartz Movies

  • 2008
    90 Years

    90 Years

    90 Years

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

    90 Years
  • 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
  • 2016
    Winter Beyond Winter

    Winter Beyond Winter

    Winter Beyond Winter

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

    Winter Beyond Winter
  • 2007
    The Wedding Present

    The Wedding Present

    The Wedding Present

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    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...

    The Wedding Present
  • 2008
    In A Year With 13 Deaths

    In A Year With 13 Deaths

    In A Year With 13 Deaths

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

    In A Year With 13 Deaths
  • 2004
    Interior Ape

    Interior Ape

    Interior Ape

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

    Interior Ape
  • 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
  • 2002
    Den of Tigers

    Den of Tigers

    Den of Tigers

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

    Den of Tigers
  • 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
  • 2005
    Sunbeam Hunter

    Sunbeam Hunter

    Sunbeam Hunter

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    ‘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