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Filmography

2026
Film still from 'Ship of Fools' (2026) by Jon Beaton. A woman's smiling face in close up.
Ship of Fools (2026)
Documentary short. [...]
A late-diagnosis of autism prompts the filmmaker to reassess the story of his life through the lives of famous eccentrics: Charles Darwin, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Emile Reynaud and Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha).
30 minutes.
Film still from 'Palimpseste sur Souvenir' (2026) by Jon Beaton. Glowing image strips with fragmented imagery from India .
Palimpseste sur Souvenir (2026)
Experimental short. [...]
A visual score to accompany the composition 'Palimpseste sur Souvenir' by composer Loran Delforge. Made using my self-built praxinoscope.
6 minutes 37 seconds.
Film still from 'A Fool's Journey' (2026) by Jon Beaton. A tall ship on blue seas.
A Fool's Journey (2026)
Documentary short. [...]
An autistic film student attempts to navigate the rules of film school and filmmaking – but keeps getting it wrong.
20 minutes.
Film still from 'My Documentary Machine' (2026) by Jon Beaton. An old camcorder modified with a magnifying glass and a pepper's ghost rig.
My Documentary Machine (2026)
Documentary short. [...]
A film student attempts to create a tool for capturing documentary portraits of any subject.
9 minutes.
2025
Film still from 'Field Reports' (2025) by Jon Beaton. The filmmaker is seen in the mirror standing in a pink bedroom holding a camcorder.
Field Reports (2025)
Fiction short. [...]
A diary-style film in which an autistic filmmaker follows two neurotypicals, trying to understand their shared way of being through objects, language and small social gestures. As the day draws on, his sense of alienation quietly emerges.
Film still from 'Viewfinder' (2025) by Jon Beaton. An eye in black-and-white as seen through a camera viewfinder.
Viewfinder (2025)
Experimental documentary short. [...]
A text film exploring photography, memory, language and branding through the prism of the World Cup Final 1982 in Madrid.
Film still from 'My Diagnosis' (2025) by Jon Beaton. A top-down view of three tarot cards laid on a wooden table. The cards are The Fool, The Lovers and Death. A hand is touching the third card.
My Diagnosis (2025)
Documentary short. [...]
The tension between self-diagnosis and medical diagnosis in an uncertain world.
Film still from 'The Spheroids' (2025) by Jon Beaton. A blueish sphere is surrounded by red and orange light against a dark background.
The Spheroids (2025)
Sci-fi short. [...]
A hyperintelligent force is taking over the world. This film uses (manipulated) found footage and optical experiments.
2024
Film still from 'Harmony Was' (2024) by Jon Beaton. A man in a dark coat sits alone in a room with a checkered floor.
Harmony Was (2024)
Fiction short. [...]
An exercise in genre filmmaking at KASK. A visit to a laundrette turns supernatural.
Film still from 'Stiltes' (2024) by Jon Beaton. A teenage student sits at a round table with her head against its surface, surrounded by marbles arranged from small to large.
Stiltes (2024)
Fiction short. [...]
A neurodivergent student feels out of place at an elite boarding school.
Film still from 'A portrait of Alex Post' (2024) by Jon Beaton. A non-binary person speaking into a microphone in a park, smiling.
A Portrait of Alex Post (2024)
Documentary short. [...]
Vegan activist Alex Post prepares for an event commemorating animals killed in the meat and dairy industries.
Film still from 'untitled dream film' (2024) by Jon Beaton. A young shirtless man in a black void holding a glowing vase that illuminates his chest and face.
untitled (dream film) (2024)
Fiction short. [...]
A young man has a restless night of sleep.
Film still from 'The Path' (2025) by Jon Beaton. Close-up of a blonde, short-haired woman in her late 20s, looking downcast. Behind her a red-brick wall and grey skies.
The Path (2024)
Fiction short. [...]
An artist in her 30s returns to her home town for a funeral.
Film still from '3 Barley Road' (2024) by Jon Beaton. A scale model of a bungalow is being constructed out of cardboard. Two hands are placing a piece of the model.
3 Barley Road (2024)
Short diary film. [...]
What is left behind when someone passes away?
Film still from 'Great Noses Are Blown Alike' (2024) by Jon Beaton. A man is poised to blow his nose into a white handkerchief with decorative blue lines around the edges.
Great Noses Are Blown Alike (2024)
Documentary short. [...]
Behind the scenes of a group art exhibition curated by Gustave Demoen in Ghent, Belgium.
Film still from 'X-periments' (2024) by Jon Beaton. An image of someone inputting a code into a number pad with a red LED on it is overlaid with an image of someone swiping a card through a card reader with a red LED on it.
X-periments (2024)
Visual research montage. [...]
Montage of clips from the TV series X-Files. An exercise for visual research class at KASK Film.
Film still from 'Sue's Apartment' (2024) by Jon Beaton. Reflected in a mirror, a young woman with dark hair sits cross-legged on a rug in a student apartment trying to fix a vacuum cleaner head.
Sue's Apartment (2024)
Fiction short. [...]
Sue's older sister arrives early for a rare visit.
2023
Film still from 'Finding Room' (2023) by Jon Beaton. A tree trunk covered in ivy in a woodland area. The tree trunk has a seam of small mushrooms running vertically from the top to the bottom of the image. The title of the film is nestled among the mushrooms in a dark recess of the tree trunk.
Finding Room (2023)
Documentary short. [...]
The local nature reserve as a third place for young people.
Film still from 'First Person' (2023) by Jon Beaton. A bearded man with closed eyes is seen outside a window at night. The man is gesturing that he is going to bed by holding his hands together against his cheek.
First Person (2023)
First-person fiction short. [...]
A young man recalls what happened at last night's party.
Film still from 'Rose' (2023) by Jon Beaton. A young woman is outside the cinema cleaning the windows with a sponge and soapy water. The sun is behind her, backlighting her and the soapy streaks.
Rose (2023)
Documentary short. [...]
Profile of a fellow film student at KASK, Ghent.
Film still from 'Stormy Luke' (2023) by Jon Beaton. Lying on a white surface is a small copy of a school photo of two brothers looking grumpy.
Stormy Luke (2023)
Fiction short. [...]
A short scene submitted as part of my application to study film at KASK, Ghent.
2018
Film still from 'Oscillotrope: War' (2018) by Jon Beaton. Against a black background, glowing green lines trace the outline of a warship at sea in front of a cliff face.
OscilloTrope: WAR! (2018)
Docu-fiction short. [...]
An anti-war animation designed for and presented on an oscilloscope.
Film still from 'OscilloSoap' (2018) by Jon Beaton. Against a black background, glowing green lines trace the outline of a cube containing a 3D version of the classic arcade game Pong.
OscilloSoap (2018)
First-person fiction short. [...]
An animation designed for and presented on an oscilloscope.
2017
Film still from 'Touching the Cheese' (2017) by Jon Beaton. Two scientists in lab coats stand around a Bunsen burner holding hands while one of them swirls a conical flask over the burner with their free hand.
Touching the Cheese (2017)
Short experimental fiction. [...]
A light-hearted experiment that, like Motion them with breath, aims to isolate a rhythm and translate it.
2016
Film still from 'Motion them with breath' (2016) by Jon Beaton. Close-up of a man in his 20s lying in the grass on a grey day. He is surrounded by dandelions and dandelion clocks. In his hand is a dandelion.
Motion them with breath (2016)
Short experimental film. [...]
An experiment in collaboration with guitarist Jesse Vanden Eynde. I recite the poem The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo by Gerard Manley Hopkins but my voice is replaced with Jesse's guitar, which captures the rhythm and intonation while stripping the language.
2015
Film still from 'Clubhuis is DEAD' (2015) by Jon Beaton. Six people in colourful togas stand in an exhibition space looking at an artwork consisting of colourful fabrics that echoes their appearance.
Clubhuis is DEAD (2015)
Short montage. [...]
A short montage of footage shot by the Clubhuis collective, of which I was a member.
2005
Film still from 'Enter, Tom Fulp' (2005) by Jon Beaton. A young woman sitting in a park surrounded by other people stares in the direction of the camera.
Enter, Tom Fulp (2005)
First-person diary film. [...]
Shot on Hi-8 digital video cassettes. Another short film from my teenage years. I approach people in a public park in Dublin with a request to describe a person in a photograph.
Film still from 'O My Brothers' (2005) by Jon Beaton. Four, different-coloured smiley-face emojis with evil red eyes hover at a bar. On the bar are four pint glasses containing milk.
O My Brothers (2005)
Animated fiction short. [...]
Short animation I made as a teenager. Inspired by Burgess's Clockwork Orange. I drew the graphics in Photoshop and animated them with Macromedia Flash. I made other animations in this period but this is probably the most presentable and ambitious.
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