
Jon Jost
Biography
Jon Stephen Jost (born 16 May 1943 in Chicago) is an American independent filmmaker.
Born in Chicago to a military family, he grew up in Georgia, Kansas, Japan, Italy, Germany and Virginia. He began making films in January 1963 after being expelled from college. In 1965 he was imprisoned by US authorities for 2 years 3 months for refusal to cooperate with the Selective Service system. Self-taught as a filmmaker, he made his first full-length film in 1974, and has since that time focused on a wide range of American issues in his films, at present having made 40 long-form films. Jost's work has shown since 1976 in major film festivals around the world.
Acting (10 movies)
Directing (71 movies)
Primaries/ A Turning Point in Lunatic China/ 1,2,3, Four
1971
Arbor Fugue
2002
Dharma Do as Dharma Does
2001

Portrait
1963
A View of Mount Baker from Port Angeles, Washington
2004

Til Edvard
2002

July 4, 2020
2020

San Lorenzo
2009

A Death in Mali - Requiem for Empire
2018

Last Chants for a Slow Dance
1977

All the Vermeers in New York
1992

Sure Fire
1990

Far from Afghanistan
2012

Canyon
1970

Fall Creek
1970

Mountains As Mountains, Landscape for Watanabe Shiko
2017

Tanti Auguri
2002

A Walk Through Waseda Garden
2004

Amtrak
2009

Coming to Terms
2013

Angel City
1976

The Bed You Sleep In
1993

Canyon II
2018

Speaking Directly
1973

Muri Romani II
2019

Slow Moves
1983

Parable
2008

Bell Diamond
1986

Rembrandt Laughing
1989

Chattisgraph Sketches
2004

The Narcissus Flowers of Katsura-shima
2012

Empire's Cross
2011

Rant
2009

6 Easy Pieces
2000
City
1964

Godard 1980
1980

Homecoming
2004

Casa do silencio
2023

Frameup
1993

They Had It Coming
2015

Images of a Lost City
2011

Stagefright
1981

Plain Talk and Common Sense (uncommon senses)
1987

Chameleon
1978

13 Fragments & 3 Narratives from Life
1968

Bowman Lake
2014

Deadendz
2023

Oui Non
2002
DHAKA: Mirpur & Dhammondi Road
2023

Blue Strait
2015

Traps
1967

Tourists
2021

Muri Romani
2000

In the Rays of Light of Ria Formosa
1999

Wood Song
2018

Again & Again
2018

Vergessensfuge
2004

Passages
2006

There's Many Friends Along This Way
2018

Over Here
2007

La lunga ombra
2006

London Brief
1997

Trinity
2011

30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019

Yellow Stone Canyon
2019

Pequenos Milagres
2019

Roma - un ritratto improvvisario
2000

Uno a me, uno a te e uno a Raffaele
1994

Swimming in Nebraska
2010

Walkerville
2024

Dissonance
2012






