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
all 87
Movies 87
Director 66
Producer 9
self 4
Writer 1
Director / Writer
Casa do silencio (2023)
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Director
DHAKA: Mirpur & Dhammondi Road (2023)
Movie
Director
July 4, 2020 (2020)
Movie
Himself
Getting Stoned with Caveh (2020)
Movie
Director
Yellow Stone Canyon (2019)
Movie
Director
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing (2019)
Movie
Himself / Director / Editor / Writer
Pequenos Milagres (2019)
Movie
Director / Director of Photography / Editor
Muri Romani II (2019)
Movie
Director
Wood Song (2018)
Movie
Director / Editor
A Death in Mali - Requiem for Empire (2018)
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Director
Again & Again (2018)
Movie
Director / Editor / Producer / Cinematography
Canyon II (2018)
Movie
Director
Mountains As Mountains, Landscape for Watanabe Shiko (2017)
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Additional Photography
Wish You Were Here (2016)
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Director
Blue Strait (2015)
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Director
They Had It Coming (2015)
Movie
Director / Director of Photography / Editor / Producer
Bowman Lake (2014)
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Director
Coming to Terms (2013)
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Director
Far from Afghanistan (2012)
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Director
The Narcissus Flowers of Katsura-shima (2012)
Movie
Writer
No Man's Zone (2012)
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Director
Images of a Lost City (2011)
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Director
Trinity (2011)
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Director
Swimming in Nebraska (2010)
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Director
San Lorenzo (2009)
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Director
Rant (2009)
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Director / Editor / Producer / Cinematography
Amtrak (2009)
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Director
Parable (2008)
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Director
Over Here (2007)
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Director
La lunga ombra (2006)
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Director / Director of Photography / Editor / Producer / Sound Designer / Writer
Passages (2006)
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Director
Homecoming (2004)
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Director
A View of Mount Baker from Port Angeles, Washington (2004)
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Director
Vergessensfuge (2004)
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Director
Chhattisgraph Sketches (2004)
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Director / Editor / Producer / Writer / Cinematography
A Walk Through Waseda Garden (2004)
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Director
Oui Non (2002)
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Director
Arbor Fugue (2002)
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Director
Til Edvard (2002)
Movie
Director / Editor / Producer / Cinematography / Sound
Tanti Auguri (2002)
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Director
Dharma Do as Dharma Does (2001)
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Cinematographer
Another Country (2000)
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Director
Muri Romani (2000)
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Director
6 Easy Pieces (2000)
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Director
Roma - un ritratto improvvisario (2000)
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Director
In the Rays of Light of Ria Formosa (1999)
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Director
London Brief (1997)
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Drummer
Mod Fuck Explosion (1994)
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Director
Uno a me, uno a te e uno a Raffaele (1994)
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Self
Made in the USA (1993)
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Director
The Bed You Sleep In (1993)
Movie
Director
Frameup (1993)
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Executive Producer
The Living End (1992)
Movie
9
Director
All the Vermeers in New York (1992)
Movie
Self
A Movie Capital (1991)
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Director
Sure Fire (1990)
Movie
Director
Rembrandt Laughing (1989)
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Director
Plain Talk and Common Sense (uncommon senses) (1987)
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Director
Bell Diamond (1986)
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Director
Slow Moves (1983)
Movie
N°171
Cinématon XVIII (1982)
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Director
Stagefright (1981)
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Nightshift (1981)
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Director
Godard 1980 (1980)
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Director
Chameleon (1978)
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Director
Angel City (1977)
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Director
Last Chants for a Slow Dance (1977)
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Director
Speaking Directly (1973)
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Director
Primaries/ A Turning Point in Lunatic China/ 1,2,3, Four (1971)
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Director
Canyon (1970)
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Director / Editor / Producer / Writer
Fall Creek (1970)
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Director / Producer / Writer
13 Fragments & 3 Narratives from Life (1968)
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Director
Traps (1967)
Movie
Actor
City (1964)
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Director
Portrait (1963)
Movie
Director
Deadendz
Movie
Burl Enright
Ghosts of Empire Prairie
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Director
There's Many Friends Along This Way
Movie
Director / Editor / Cinematography
Vera X 3
Movie
Director
Koch Poem
Movie
Director
Empire's Cross
Movie
Director
Mr. Right
Movie
Director
Funkies
Movie
Director
Water Song No. 2
Movie
Director
Um dia vai haver uma domingo
Movie
Director
Mitch Plays
Movie
Director
Inside Story
Movie
Ratings
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1993
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1943-05-16 (80 years old)
Birth PlaceChicago, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship
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