Jonathan Schwartz Movies

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

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

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

From 'A Set Of Miniatures'

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

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 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...

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

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...

An experimental short by Jonathan Schwartz, which is part of the 33 1/3 series.