Rembrandt Laughing

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.

• Jon JostDirector
• Jon JostWriter
• Jon A. EnglishOriginal Music Composer

• Jon A. EnglishMartin
• Barbara HammesClaire
• Jennifer JohansonJennifer
• Ed Greenthe framemaker
• Nathaniel DorskyDaniel
• Janet McKinleyJanet
• Roger RuffinRoger #1
• John PowersRoger #2
• Henry S. RosenthalStephen
• Kate DezinaJune Brandt
• Jerry BarrishMr. Bondsman
• John BassettStacy