Jon Jost
Born: 1943-05-16 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
2024
- Walkerville ... (Director)
- Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio Narizzano as Voice of Silvio Narizzano
2023
- Casa do silencio ... (Director)
- Deadendz ... (Director of Photography)
- Not Getting Stoned with Jon Jost as himself
- 5 MINS IN CANNING ... (Director)
- UGIA SONG POEM ... (Director)
- DHAKA: Mirpur & Dhammondi Road ... (Director)
- FIRTH2 ... (Director)
2022
- SONG ... (Director)
- murmuration ... (Director)
2021
- OCULUS ... (Director)
- Tourists ... (Director)
- Sonnyboy's ... (Director)
- MERRY-GO-AROUND ... (Director)
- Opening at O'Flaherty's ... (Director)
- O Canto do Sao Pedro de Moel ... (Director)
- Three Views ... (Director)
- MADISON SQ PARK ... (Director)
- UNION SQUARE ... (Director)
- LISBOA CASCAIS 2 ... (Director)
- River Squall ... (Director)
- MONET VARIATION 1 ... (Director)
- WALK IN THE PARK ... (Director)
- Love Letter To Robert ... (Director)
- odette & jon ... (Director)
- Up On The Mountain ... (Director)
- TAI CHI ... (Director)
- all along ... (Director)
- Cafe ... (Director)
- Foursome ... (Director)
- Glorious Freedom ... (Director)
- Grand Central Station ... (Director)
- IRAN ... (Director)
- mercado del capo ... (Director)
- MONDELLO Surfer's Meditation ... (Director)
- BRIGHTON BEACH ... (Director)
- BRIGHTON BEACH MTA ... (Director)
- Brooklyn Bridge ... (Director)
- Doubles ... (Director)
- Duckweed ... (Director)
- LISBON CASCAIS ... (Director)
- Madison Park II ... (Director)
- SERFS UP ... (Director)
- The House Is Singing ... (Director)
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn ... (Director)
- Broken Down on the Highway ... (Director)
- Bryant Park ... (Director)
- COME AND GO: Cascais < - > Lisboa ... (Director)
- Festivale di San Gennaro ... (Director)
- Gallery ... (Director)
- MET ... (Director)
- Mondello Meditazione No. 2 ... (Director)
- Play Ball ... (Director)
2020
- PRICKLY-PEAR FINAL ... (Director)
- Nebraska Grasses Veils ... (Director)
- whole lotta living ... (Director)
- If You Don't Have A Friend ... (Director)
- July 4, 2020 ... (Director)
- Spectral Passage ... (Director)
- Mt Plesant Wa 420 1-1 ... (Director)
- I Been Up On The Mountain ... (Director)
- neon galaxy ... (Director)
- Number Nine ... (Director)
- many friends ... (Director)
- The Symphony ... (Director)
- #9 ... (Director)
- ALL ALONG THE WATER TANKS ... (Director)
- born to lose ... (Director)
- Born to Lose ... (Director)
- fixin to die ... (Director)
- GOING GOING GONE ... (Director)
- ON THE STRAIT ... (Director)
- Veils ... (Director)
- BROKEN ... (Director)
- MY LIFE AS A MIDGE ... (Director)
- The Brambles ... (Director)
- waltzing ... (Director)
- Betty's Grand Canyon Video ... (Director)
- going gone ... (Director)
- HOUSES ... (Director)
2019
- 30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing ... (Director)
- Muri Romani II ... (Director)
- 3 ... (Director)
- Pequenos Milagres as Himself
- CLEARCUT ... (Director)
- Yellow Stone Canyon ... (Director)
- 1 ... (Director)
- 2 ... (Director)
- KOREA ... (Director)
- NAVE ... (Director)
- TULSA ... (Director)
- See What I Mean ? ... (Director)
2018
- Wood Song ... (Director)
- Canyon II ... (Director)
- There's Many Friends Along This Way ... (Director)
- A Death in Mali - Requiem for Empire ... (Editor)
- Going going gone ... (Director)
- Cambridge Afternoon ... (Director)
- if you don't have a friend ... (Director)
- Again & Again ... (Director)
- Broken Down on the Highway ... (Director)
- Born To Lose ... (Director)
2017
- WALTZ FB ... (Director)
- Plain Talk pt 2 ... (Director)
- Mountains As Mountains, Landscape for Watanabe Shiko ... (Director)
- AT PLAY IN THE FIELDS OF THE LORD [NEBRASKA] ... (Director)
- INSTABILITY ... (Director)
- Plain Talk pt 1 ... (Director)
- Antonio DAntoni ... (Director)
2016
- Wish You Were Here ... (Additional Photography)
- The Last Election ... (Director)
- final gertjan.m4v ... (Director)
- LB BOLOGNA FOR ... (Director)
2015
- Blue Strait ... (Director)
- They Had It Coming ... (Screenplay)
- JOST ON SPEAKING DIRECTLY ... (Director)
2014
- Ghosts of Empire Prairie as Burl Enright
- Bowman Lake ... (Director)
2013
- Coming to Terms ... (Editor)
2012
- Far from Afghanistan ... (Director)
- Dissonance ... (Director)
- The Narcissus Flowers of Katsura-shima ... (Director)
2011
- Empire's Cross ... (Director)
- Trinity ... (Director)
- Images of a Lost City ... (Director)
2010
- Swimming in Nebraska ... (Director)
2009
- San Lorenzo ... (Director)
- Rant ... (Director)
- Amtrak ... (Cinematography)
2008
- Parable ... (Director)
2007
- Over Here ... (Director)
2006
- La lunga ombra ... (Writer)
- Passages ... (Writer)
2004
- Chhattisgarh Sketches ... (Director)
- Vergessensfuge ... (Producer)
- A View of Mount Baker from Port Angeles, Washington ... (Director)
- A Walk Through Waseda Garden ... (Director)
- Homecoming ... (Writer)
2002
- Tanti Auguri ... (Editor)
- Til Edvard ... (Director)
- Arbor Fugue ... (Director)
- Oui Non ... (Director)
2001
- Dharma Do as Dharma Does ... (Director)
2000
- Another Country ... (Director of Photography)
- Roma - un ritratto improvvisario ... (Director)
- 6 Easy Pieces ... (Director)
- Muri Romani ... (Director)
1999
- In the Rays of Light of Ria Formosa ... (Director)
1997
- London Brief ... (Director of Photography)
1994
- Uno a me, uno a te e uno a Raffaele ... (Writer)
- Mod Fuck Explosion as Drummer
1993
- Made in the USA as Self
- The Bed You Sleep In ... (Director)
- Frameup ... (Director)
1992
- The Living End ... (Executive Producer)
- All the Vermeers in New York ... (Director)
1991
- A Movie Capital as Self
1990
- Sure Fire ... (Director)
1989
- Rembrandt Laughing ... (Director)
1987
- Texas, Osijek ... (Director of Photography)
- Plain Talk and Common Sense (uncommon senses) ... (Producer)
1986
- Bell Diamond ... (Director)
1983
- Slow Moves as Man Behind Counter
1982
- Cinématon XVIII as N°171
1981
- Nightshift
- Stagefright ... (Writer)
1980
- Godard 1980 ... (Director)
1978
- Chameleon as Ranger
1977
- Last Chants for a Slow Dance ... (Screenplay)
1976
- Angel City ... (Editor)
1973
- Speaking Directly ... (Director)
1971
- Primaries/ A Turning Point in Lunatic China/ 1,2,3, Four ... (Director)
1970
- Fall Creek ... (Writer)
- Canyon ... (Director)
1968
- Country as Man
- 13 Fragments & 3 Narratives from Life ... (Writer)
1967
- Traps ... (Director)
1964
- City ... (Director)
1963
- Portrait ... (Director)