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Jon Jost Introduces His Film "All the Vermeers in New York" on Notebook | MUBI

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Jon Jost's All the Vermeers in New York is exclusively showing on MUBI starting December 28, 2020 in the series Rediscovered. I lived in New York for a year before shooting this film, observing, nosing around, and researching. While much of the research is present in the film, fortunately it is nearly invisible—the tulip proffered by Mark on meeting Anna at a café, the mere conjunction of choosing Vermeer as a topic in a city once called, in his time, New Amsterdam—each carries a submerged bit of information utterly unnecessary for the viewer. But the research was needed for me as a kind of invisible spine on which to place a totally improvised film, which from its formalistic appearance, and the seeming exactitude of its talk, its images and its structure, would seem to have been highly calculated. But there was never a word of dialog on paper, nor was there even a structural outline as I normally had had in previous improvised work. With the exception of a visually clear conception o

Jon Jost Introduces His Film "All the Vermeers in New York" on Notebook | MUBI Notebook Column Jon Jost's All the Vermeers in New York is exclusively showing on MUBI starting December 28, 2020 in the series Rediscovered . I lived in New York for a year before shooting this film, observing, nosing around, and researching. While much of the research is present in the film, fortunately it is nearly invisible—the tulip proffered by Mark on meeting Anna at a café, the mere conjunction of choosing Vermeer as a topic in a city once called, in his time, New Amsterdam—each carries a submerged bit of in

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