Jon Jost
Known for: Directing
Born: May 16, 1943
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
196 movies · 0 TV shows, newest first
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Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio Narizzano
2024
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Walkerville
2024
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Casa do silencio
2023NR
FIRTH2
2023
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Not Getting Stoned with Jon Jost
2023
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Deadendz
2023NR
UGIA SONG POEM
2023NR
DHAKA: Mirpur & Dhammondi Road
2023NR
5 MINS IN CANNING
2023NR
SONG
2022
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murmuration
2022NR
The House Is Singing
2021NR
mercado del capo
2021NR
MONDELLO Surfer's Meditation
2021NR
Mondello Meditazione No. 2
2021NR
O Canto do Sao Pedro de Moel
2021
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COME AND GO: Cascais < - > Lisboa
2021
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odette & jon
2021NR
LISBOA CASCAIS 2
2021NR
Cafe
2021NR
LISBON CASCAIS
2021NR
Play Ball
2021NR
SERFS UP
2021NR
MADISON SQ PARK
2021NR
TAI CHI
2021NR
MET
2021NR
Brooklyn Bridge
2021NR
Festivale di San Gennaro
2021NR
OCULUS
2021NR
WALK IN THE PARK
2021NR
Madison Park II
2021NR
Three Views
2021
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
2021NR
Doubles
2021NR
BRIGHTON BEACH MTA
2021
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Duckweed
2021NR
Gallery
2021NR
Grand Central Station
2021NR
Bryant Park
2021NR
MERRY-GO-AROUND
2021NR
UNION SQUARE
2021NR
Love Letter To Robert
2021NR
BRIGHTON BEACH
2021NR
Foursome
2021NR
Glorious Freedom
2021NR
Sonnyboy's
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Opening at O'Flaherty's
2021NR
Up On The Mountain
2021
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MONET VARIATION 1
2021NR
River Squall
2021
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all along
2021
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IRAN
2021NR
Broken Down on the Highway
2021
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Tourists
2021NR
PRICKLY-PEAR FINAL
2020NR
#9
2020NR
HOUSES
2020NR
I Been Up On The Mountain
2020NR
ALL ALONG THE WATER TANKS
2020NR
The Symphony
2020NR
MY LIFE AS A MIDGE
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Born to Lose
2020NR
If You Don't Have A Friend
2020
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The Brambles
2020NR
Number Nine
2020
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Nebraska Grasses Veils
2020NR
Veils
2020
5.0
July 4, 2020
2020NR
Spectral Passage
2020NR
born to lose
2020NR
BROKEN
2020NR
fixin to die
2020NR
many friends
2020NR
neon galaxy
2020NR
ON THE STRAIT
2020NR
waltzing
2020NR
whole lotta living
2020NR
GOING GOING GONE
2020NR
Mt Plesant Wa 420 1-1
2020NR
going gone
2020NR
Betty's Grand Canyon Video
2020
10.0
Yellow Stone Canyon
2019
5.3
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019
8.0
Pequenos Milagres
2019NR
See What I Mean ?
2019NR
KOREA
2019
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NAVE
2019
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1
2019
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2
2019
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3
2019NR
CLEARCUT
2019
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Muri Romani II
2019NR
TULSA
2019NR
if you don't have a friend
2018NR
Broken Down on the Highway
2018NR
Born To Lose
2018NR
Going going gone
2018
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Wood Song
2018
6.0
A Death in Mali - Requiem for Empire
2018
6.0
There's Many Friends Along This Way
2018
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Again & Again
2018NR
Cambridge Afternoon
2018
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Canyon II
2018NR
WALTZ FB
2017NR
Plain Talk pt 1
2017NR
Plain Talk pt 2
2017NR
AT PLAY IN THE FIELDS OF THE LORD [NEBRASKA]
2017NR
INSTABILITY
2017NR
Antonio DAntoni
2017
6.0
Mountains As Mountains, Landscape for Watanabe Shiko
2017NR
Wish You Were Here
2016NR
The Last Election
2016NR
LB BOLOGNA FOR
2016NR
final gertjan.m4v
2016NR
JOST ON SPEAKING DIRECTLY
2015
7.0
Blue Strait
2015
6.0
They Had It Coming
2015
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Ghosts of Empire Prairie
2014
6.0
Bowman Lake
2014
7.2
Coming to Terms
2013
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Dissonance
2012
5.3
Far from Afghanistan
2012
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The Narcissus Flowers of Katsura-shima
2012
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Empire's Cross
2011
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Images of a Lost City
2011
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Trinity
2011
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Swimming in Nebraska
2010
6.0
San Lorenzo
2009
6.0
Amtrak
2009
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Rant
2009
4.0
Parable
2008
8.0
Over Here
2007
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La lunga ombra
2006
7.0
Passages
2006
8.6
Homecoming
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A View of Mount Baker from Port Angeles, Washington
2004
7.5
Vergessensfuge
2004
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Chhattisgarh Sketches
2004
3.0
A Walk Through Waseda Garden
2004
7.5
Oui Non
2002NR
Arbor Fugue
2002
5.0
Til Edvard
2002
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Tanti Auguri
2002NR
Dharma Do as Dharma Does
2001
7.7
Another Country
2000
9.0
Muri Romani
2000
5.3
6 Easy Pieces
2000
10.0
Roma - un ritratto improvvisario
2000
7.0
In the Rays of Light of Ria Formosa
1999
9.0
London Brief
1997
5.5
Mod Fuck Explosion
1994
10.0
Uno a me, uno a te e uno a Raffaele
1994
2.0
Made in the USA
1993
7.0
The Bed You Sleep In
1993
6.2
Frameup
1993
6.7
The Living End
1992
5.5
All the Vermeers in New York
1992
6.0
A Movie Capital
1991
6.3
Sure Fire
1990
5.0
Rembrandt Laughing
1989
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Texas, Osijek
1987
6.4
Plain Talk and Common Sense (uncommon senses)
1987
6.9
Bell Diamond
1986
7.5
Slow Moves
1983NR
Cinématon XVIII
1982
6.8
Nightshift
1981
5.4
Stagefright
1981
5.7
Godard 1980
1980
7.0
Chameleon
1978
6.5
Last Chants for a Slow Dance
1977
6.1
Angel City
1976
8.7
Speaking Directly
19736.5
Primaries/ A Turning Point in Lunatic China/ 1,2,3, Four
1971
5.6
Canyon
1970
5.0
Fall Creek
1970
6.0
13 Fragments & 3 Narratives from Life
1968
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Country
1968
6.0
Traps
19674.5
City
1964
4.0
Portrait
1963
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Vera X 3
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Mitch Plays
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Inside Story
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Koch Poem
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Um dia vai haver uma domingo
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Funkies
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Water Song No. 2
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Mr. Right
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PROVA
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Punta Secca
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Rabeahe
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Red Frame
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Red Psalm
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STARBOARD
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Street Life
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SWANTON ROAD
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