Directing · b. 1943 · Chicago, Illinois, USA

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...

Directed
Walkerville 2024 Casa do silencio 2023 Deadendz 2023 DHAKA: Mirpur & Dhammondi Road 2023 Tourists 2021 July 4, 2020 2020 Muri Romani II 2019 30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing 2019 Yellow Stone Canyon 2019 Pequenos Milagres 2019 A Death in Mali - Requiem for Empire 2018 Canyon II 2018 Wood Song 2018 Again & Again 2018 There's Many Friends Along This Way 2018 Mountains As Mountains, Landscape for Watanabe Shiko 2017 They Had It Coming 2015 Blue Strait 2015 Bowman Lake 2014 Coming to Terms 2013 Far from Afghanistan 2012 The Narcissus Flowers of Katsura-shima 2012 Dissonance 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 Passages 2006 La lunga ombra 2006 A View of Mount Baker from Port Angeles, Washington 2004 A Walk Through Waseda Garden 2004 Chhattisgarh Sketches 2004 Homecoming 2004 Vergessensfuge 2004 Arbor Fugue 2002 Til Edvard 2002 Tanti Auguri 2002 Oui Non 2002 Dharma Do as Dharma Does 2001 6 Easy Pieces 2000 Muri Romani 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
Cinematography
Deadendz 2023 Muri Romani II 2019 They Had It Coming 2015 Bowman Lake 2014 Coming to Terms 2013 Passages 2006 La lunga ombra 2006 Homecoming 2004 Vergessensfuge 2004 Another Country 2000 London Brief 1997 Frameup 1993 The Bed You Sleep In 1993 All the Vermeers in New York 1992 Sure Fire 1990 Rembrandt Laughing 1989 Plain Talk and Common Sense (uncommon senses) 1987 Texas, Osijek 1987 Slow Moves 1983 Stagefright 1981 Nightshift 1981 Chameleon 1978 Last Chants for a Slow Dance 1977 Angel City 1976
Acting
Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio Narizzano Voice of Silvio Narizzano 2024 Not Getting Stoned with Jon Jost himself 2023 Ghosts of Empire Prairie Burl Enright 2014 Mod Fuck Explosion Drummer 1994 Made in the USA Self 1993 A Movie Capital Self 1991 Cinématon XVIII N°171 1982 Country Man 1968
Other Credits
Wish You Were Here Additional Photography 2016 The Living End Executive Producer 1992
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