Jon Jost

Birthday: 1943-05-16
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Gender: Male

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.

Credits

	Year	Title
		Vera X 3
		Mitch Plays
		Inside Story
		Empire's Cross
		Koch Poem
		Um dia vai haver uma domingo
		Funkies
		Water Song No. 2
		Mr. Right
		Deadendz
		There's Many Friends Along This Way
	2023-11-24	Casa do silencio
	2023-01-16	DHAKA: Mirpur & Dhammondi Road
	2021-01-01	Tourists
	2020-07-05	July 4, 2020
	2019-12-17	Yellow Stone Canyon
	2019-12-14	30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
	2019-11-20	Pequenos Milagres
	2019-06-09	Muri Romani II
	2018-12-12	Wood Song
	2018-08-13	A Death in Mali - Requiem for Empire
	2018-05-07	Again & Again
	2018-02-17	Canyon II
	2017-01-01	Mountains As Mountains, Landscape for Watanabe Shiko
	2015-09-18	Blue Strait
	2015-01-15	They Had It Coming
	2014-01-01	Bowman Lake
	2013-11-24	Coming to Terms
	2012-08-22	Far from Afghanistan
	2012-06-12	The Narcissus Flowers of Katsura-shima
	2011-01-01	Images of a Lost City
	2011-01-01	Trinity
	2010-01-01	Swimming in Nebraska
	2009-01-01	San Lorenzo
	2009-01-01	Amtrak
	2009-01-01	Rant
	2008-02-22	Parable
	2007-05-24	Over Here
	2006-12-01	La lunga ombra
	2006-09-10	Passages
	2004-09-09	Homecoming
	2004-08-27	A View of Mount Baker from Port Angeles, Washington
	2004-06-05	Vergessensfuge
	2004-05-01	Chhattisgraph Sketches
	2004-01-01	A Walk Through Waseda Garden
	2002-08-01	Oui Non
	2002-01-03	Arbor Fugue
	2002-01-02	Til Edvard
	2002-01-01	Tanti Auguri
	2001-01-01	Dharma Do as Dharma Does
	2000-10-14	Muri Romani
	2000-01-23	6 Easy Pieces
	2000-01-01	Roma - un ritratto improvvisario
	1999-01-20	In the Rays of Light of Ria Formosa
	1997-10-01	London Brief
	1994-01-01	Uno a me, uno a te e uno a Raffaele
	1993-09-10	The Bed You Sleep In
	1993-01-19	Frameup
	1992-05-01	All the Vermeers in New York
	1990-09-12	Sure Fire
	1989-02-12	Rembrandt Laughing
	1987-09-06	Plain Talk and Common Sense (uncommon senses)
	1986-03-17	Bell Diamond
	1983-01-01	Slow Moves
	1981-01-01	Stagefright
	1980-01-01	Godard 1980
	1978-01-01	Chameleon
	1977-08-31	Last Chants for a Slow Dance
	1976-10-18	Angel City
	1973-01-01	Speaking Directly
	1971-03-19	Primaries/ A Turning Point in Lunatic China/ 1,2,3, Four
	1970-12-31	Canyon
	1970-01-01	Fall Creek
	1968-05-16	13 Fragments & 3 Narratives from Life
	1967-09-01	Traps
	1964-01-01	City
	1963-01-01	Portrait