Spectacle Theater in NYC (124 S 3rd St, Brooklyn, NY 11249) will be hosting a retrospective of some of Jonathan Schwartz's work on Friday April 11th at 7:30PM and Sunday April 13th at 7:30PM. The films will be introduced by friends of Jonathan's and a majority of the shorts will be screened on 16mm.

Before his untimely death at the age of 45, Jonathan Schwartz had already built a formidable body of work as one of the most promising and accomplished experimental filmmakers of the 21st century. As a filmmaker and professor at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and Keene State College in New Hampshire, his 16mm films are fragments of fleeting wonder, navigating landscapes as varied as the glaciers of Iceland to a canopy of trees near his Vermont home with the same sense wonder and curiosity. With the ephemerality of childlike awe while simultaneously contemplating grief and mortality, his work often parallels that of authors like W.G. Sebald in its attempt to wrestle with the elusiveness of memory  through a combination of found objects and readings and his own elliptical imagery to create a form that is wholly new and enthralling.

Spectacle is proud to present the first NYC based program of his work since 2019, a rare opportunity to view much of his work as it was intended, on 16mm in a small intimate environment.