With experimental film legend Jon Jost in person.

TOURISTS, the 2021 film from legendary experimental filmmaker Jon Jost, is an exploration of many things — the writer Raymond Carver, the town of Port Angeles (Washington State), the nature of writing stories and poetry, the interplay between writing and acting, the nature of fiction and truth. All of this is addressed obliquely and poetically, in the form of a fragmented kind of narrative.

About Jon Jost:

Born in 1943, acclaimed filmmaker Jon Jost has made 46 feature-length films on celluloid, 16 and 35mm, and digital media, all of which he has conceived, written, photographed, directed, and edited; most of these he also produced. He has made more than 50 short works and one large-scale seven-screen installation work, TRINITY, presented at the ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany.

His work has shown widely in museums, film archives, and festivals since 1975. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, presented a complete retrospective of Jost’s work in January 1991. This subsequently traveled to the J.F. Kennedy Center, Washington D.C., the Harvard Film Archive, the UCLA Film Archive, The Film Arts Foundation of San Francisco, as well as to the Bergamo Film Meeting 1993, the Viennale International Film Festival 1993, and the Bologna and Torino Film Archives in Italy (1995). His films were accorded full retrospectives at the Cinemateca Portuguese (1996) and the Filmoteca Español (1997), and in 2006 the Buenos Aires Independent Festival accorded his work a partial retrospective and there was another partial retrospective at the Macedonian Cineteca last year.