Gus Van Sant Movies

A record of a teenage choir singing a song.

"The Discipline of D.E." is a short 16mm film directed by Gus Van Sant. It’s based on a story in “Exterminator!” by William...

A present-day young actor becomes convinced he is the reincarnation of Antinous, sparking a psychosexual drama that bridges the grandeur of ancient...

Nigel Nado, the notable documentary filmmaker, is trying to make a movie about some people trying to make a movie. But everything is going wrong. The...

Experimental short film preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

An older man meets and becomes fascinated by a younger man in this somewhat autobiographical work.

LA can be a hard place to live, and Joe is about to give up and move back to Montana, the place he escaped from years before. But when he returns,...

Youth tells about his jail experience. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

15-minute interview with director Gus Van Sant on Elephant (2003)

A biopic of the infamous Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced crypto mogul, co-founder and CEO of FTX, who once owned one of the world’s largest...

Gus Van Sant, dissatisfied professionally, counts five ways to end his life. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

Facing eviction, the residents of a bohemian quarter of Portland, Oregon organize to collectively purchase a block of houses, only to get a crash...

The short film was made from material shot for a Levi’s commercial on which Gus Van Sant was given complete freedom. Van Sant delivered the ad,...

Experimental short film preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2017.

In Gus Van Sant's loving portrait of his cat, a reflected light leads the subject to explore a domestic composition in a manner that can only be...

Directors W. Alexander Jones and Carolann Stoney turn their cameras on Liv Osthus, one of the best-known artists working in Portland’s adult...