Rembrandt Laughing (1989)
This film is a portrait of the passage of one year in the lives of some San Francisco friends, circa 1988 (before the dot.coming of the city), a slow marijuana hazed story which drifts like the fabled fog, encompassing the quirks and habits of a generation that made the city theirs, if only for a while. Very obliquely Rembrandt Laughing sketches the time and place, encompassing the AIDS epidemic, the casual sexual revolution, the debris of '68 lingering in the air. A quiet, very San Francisco comedy of life among a small group of friends. Rembrandt Laughing was improvised over the period of about a month by Jost and his friends, mostly acting non-professionals.
Director: Jon Jost
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Jon A. English as Martin |
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Barbara Hammes as Claire |
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Jennifer Johanson as Jennifer |
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Ed Green as the framemaker |
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Nathaniel Dorsky as Daniel |
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Janet McKinley as Janet |
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Roger Ruffin as Roger #1 |
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John Powers as Roger #2 |
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Henry S. Rosenthal as Stephen |
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Kate Dezina as June Brandt |
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Jerry Barrish as Mr. Bondsman |
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John Bassett as Stacy |
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Peter Machel as Crazy Tony |
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Marshall Gaddis as |
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Jim Nisbet as Jim |
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Kathleen Dezina as |
| Directing | Jon Jost | Director |
| Writing | Jon Jost | Writer |
| Camera | Jon Jost | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Jon Jost | Editor |
| Production | Jon Jost | Producer |
| Sound | Alenka Pavlin | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Henry S. Rosenthal | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Jon A. English | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Jon Jost | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Jon A. English | Sound |
| Sound | Jon A. English | Original Music Composer |
