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