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.

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...

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

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,...

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

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

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

From 'A Set Of Miniatures'

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...

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 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...