Jon Jost

Known for: Directing
Born: May 16, 1943, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Movies: 179

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.

Upcoming Jon Jost Movies

Vera X 3

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Punta Secca

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Red Frame

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Red Psalm

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SWANTON ROAD

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Best-Known Movies

5.5

All the Vermeers in New York

1992

6.5

Last Chants for a Slow Dance

1977

5.5

Mod Fuck Explosion

1994

5.6

Canyon

1970

7.0

The Bed You Sleep In

1993

6.2

Frameup

1993

6.7

Nightshift

1981

6.1

Angel City

1976

5.0

Rembrandt Laughing

1989

5.5

Stagefright

1981

Filmography

2024	Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio Narizzano	Voice of Silvio Narizzano
2023	Not Getting Stoned with Jon Jost	himself
2019	Pequenos Milagres	Himself
2014	Ghosts of Empire Prairie	Burl Enright
1994	Mod Fuck Explosion	Drummer
1993	Made in the USA	Self
1991	A Movie Capital	Self
1983	Slow Moves	Man Behind Counter
1982	Cinématon XVIII	N°171
1981	Nightshift
1978	Chameleon	Ranger
1968	Country	Man

Directing, Writing & Producing

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

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