Gus Van Sant

On the rocky path to sobriety after a life-changing accident, John Callahan discovers the healing power of art, willing his injured hands into ...

In Japan’s Aokigahara Forest, a troubled teacher meets a mysterious lost stranger who takes him on a life-changing journey of love and ...

A salesman for a natural gas company experiences life-changing events after arriving in a small town, where his corporation wants to tap into the ...

Unused footage from Gus Van Sant’s 1991 film My Own Private Idaho is re-contextualized in James Franco’s tribute to River Phoenix.

Two outsiders, both shaped by the circumstances that have brought them together, forge a deep and lasting love.

The true story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man ever elected to public office. In San Francisco in the late 1970s, Harvey Milk becomes an ...

8 shorts centered around 8 themes directed by 8 famous film directors involved and sharing their opinion on progress, on the set-backs and the ...

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, “To Each His Own Cinema” brought together 33 of the ...

A teenage skateboarder becomes suspected of being connected with a security guard who suffered a brutal death in a skate park called ...

Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 ...

The life and struggles of a notorious rock musician seeping into a pit of loneliness whose everyday life involves friends and family seeking ...

Several ordinary high school students go through their daily routine as two others prepare for something more malevolent.

Two friends named Gerry become lost in the desert after taking a wrong turn. Their attempts to find their way home only lead them into further trouble.

Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents while living on the streets of the Bronx. He ...

The story of a man who believes himself to be gay after watching a gay pornographic film with his wife.

A young female embezzler arrives at the Bates Motel, which has terrible secrets of its own.

Headstrong yet aimless, Will Hunting has a genius-level IQ but chooses to work as a janitor at MIT. When he secretly solves highly difficult ...

A close-up of Allen Ginsberg reciting his “skeletons” poem is bluescreened and dissolved against archival film and video clips, and backed by ...

Suzanne Stone wants to be a world-famous news anchor and she is willing to do anything to get what she wants. What she lacks in intelligence, she ...

A girl born with enormous thumbs in the repressive era of the 1950s learns to turn her quirks into assets.

In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Henry IV,” Mike Waters is a hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the ...

An indictment ballad of all the different political groups in America.

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

Portland, Oregon, 1971. Bob Hughes is the charismatic leader of a peculiar quartet, formed by his wife, Dianne, and another couple, Rick and ...

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

Walt is a lonely convenience store clerk who has fallen in love with a Mexican migrant worker named Johnny. Though Walt has little in common with ...

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

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

“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 Burroughs ...