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Jon Jost
Directing
Born May 16, 1943 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
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.
Directed (79)
Walkerville
2024
Casa do silencio
2023
Deadendz
2023
DHAKA: Mirpur & Dhammondi Road
2023
Tourists
2021
July 4, 2020
2020
Yellow Stone Canyon
2019
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019
Pequenos Milagres
2019
Muri Romani II
2019
Wood Song
2018
A Death in Mali - Requiem for Empire
2018
There's Many Friends Along This Way
2018
Again & Again
2018
Canyon II
2018
Mountains As Mountains, Landscape for Watanabe Shiko
2017
Blue Strait
2015
They Had It Coming
2015
Bowman Lake
2014
Coming to Terms
2013
Dissonance
2012
Far from Afghanistan
2012
The Narcissus Flowers of Katsura-shima
2012
Empire's Cross
2011
Images of a Lost City
2011
Trinity
2011
Swimming in Nebraska
2010
San Lorenzo
2009
Amtrak
2009
Rant
2009
Parable
2008
Over Here
2007
La lunga ombra
2006
Passages
2006
Homecoming
2004
A View of Mount Baker from Port Angeles, Washington
2004
Vergessensfuge
2004
Chhattisgarh Sketches
2004
A Walk Through Waseda Garden
2004
Oui Non
2002
Arbor Fugue
2002
Til Edvard
2002
Tanti Auguri
2002
Dharma Do as Dharma Does
2001
Muri Romani
2000
6 Easy Pieces
2000
Roma - un ritratto improvvisario
2000
In the Rays of Light of Ria Formosa
1999
London Brief
1997
Uno a me, uno a te e uno a Raffaele
1994
The Bed You Sleep In
1993
Frameup
1993
All the Vermeers in New York
1992
Sure Fire
1990
Rembrandt Laughing
1989
Plain Talk and Common Sense (uncommon senses)
1987
Bell Diamond
1986
Slow Moves
1983
Stagefright
1981
Godard 1980
1980
Chameleon
1978
Last Chants for a Slow Dance
1977
Angel City
1976
Speaking Directly
1973
Primaries/ A Turning Point in Lunatic China/ 1,2,3, Four
1971
Canyon
1970
Fall Creek
1970
13 Fragments & 3 Narratives from Life
1968
Traps
1967
City
1964
Portrait
1963
Vera X 3
Mitch Plays
Inside Story
Koch Poem
Um dia vai haver uma domingo
Funkies
Water Song No. 2
Mr. Right
