Jonathan Schwartz

Potential Northwestern fellow Tess Harper lasers through her best friend's wedding planning like the star doctor she hopes to soon become. In fact,...

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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...

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A visual essay about the progressive tradition of the United States as seen through grave markers and monuments.

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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...

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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...

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Documentary on the 1953 musical "The Band Wagon."

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

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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.

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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...

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(Maybe) of finding neutral signs in a non-neutral place while tension sits, increases, is shared, builds, or possibly lessens–or maybe is...

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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...

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

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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,...

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From 'A Set Of Miniatures'

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

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

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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A poetic travelogue through the city of Jerusalem.

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

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