Jon Jost

Known for DirectingBorn 1943-05-16 (age 83)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.Read more

Movies & web series

Yellow Stone Canyon

Roma - un ritratto improvvisario

Uno a me, uno a te e uno a Raffaele

Muri Romani

London Brief

Homecoming

Speaking Directly

Pequenos Milagres

Over Here

Another Country

Vergessensfuge

Oui Non

Slow Moves

Coming to Terms

Blue Strait

Passages

In the Rays of Light of Ria Formosa

The Bed You Sleep In

Chameleon

Bell Diamond

The Living End

Nightshift

Last Chants for a Slow Dance

Plain Talk and Common Sense (uncommon senses)

Sure Fire

Primaries/ A Turning Point in Lunatic China/ 1,2,3, Four

A Death in Mali - Requiem for Empire

There's Many Friends Along This Way

Mountains As Mountains, Landscape for Watanabe Shiko

They Had It Coming

Bowman Lake

Frameup

San Lorenzo

Amtrak

A Movie Capital

Angel City

13 Fragments & 3 Narratives from Life

Traps

All the Vermeers in New York

30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing

Godard 1980

Mod Fuck Explosion

Far from Afghanistan

6 Easy Pieces

Stagefright

Canyon

July 4, 2020

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