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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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14 December 2019
Over 30 filmmakers and friends of Strand Releasing have come together to honor the company’s indelible contribution to independent cinema over the past thirty years.
01 January 1970
A homage to nature and a plea for a careful approach to it. In one of his early films, Jon Jost shows impressions of a stream in the forest and a couple streaming through the forest: direct looks into the camera, cross-fades, multiple exposures, playing with sunlight, shadows and shapes.
16 May 1968
A portrait of alienation is sketched out, focusing on a young art student who passively, but consciously, rejects responsibility for the political storms swirling about her.
17 February 2018
From Jon Jost's Site: "Canyon is in effect a re-make of a film I shot in 1970 in 16mm, which ran 5 minutes.
21 January 2004
A digital diary reflecting Jon Jost's experiences in India in 2003, when he was teaching filmmaking with digital cameras there.
27 August 2004
A short landscape film made by Jon Jost in 2004 in DV.
01 January 1978
A scathing portrait of the Hollywood/LA arts milieu of the late 70’s, Chameleon follows the amorphous day of its lead character, an Armani-jacketed peddler of high-class dope, fraudulent art, and preening postures suited-to-fit the changing victims, though as with all such fakery, the real victim in the long run is the person who lives such a life.
01 January 2001
A 2000 short film directed by Jon Jost. The film screened at International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2002.
01 January 1964
1964, Autumn in Chicago. This was my 4th film, shot while waiting to go to prison for refusing to serve in the US military.
09 June 2019
Jon Jost: MURI ROMANI II is a "slow film" showing the walls of the center of Rome in a manner which is both beautiful and mysterious, and hopefully prompts a meditative state which unconsciously raises thoughts of the deep history of Rome and of humanity.
01 January 2009
An experimental sketch that came about while Jon Jost was teaching at Italy's National Film School. He strolled through the San Lorenzo district, observed the celebrations, the lively street life and didn't miss the nearby cemetery.
10 September 2006
An enchanting moving painting. Digital colour shifts like a palette knife in greasy paint. For those who want to undergo the drug intoxication without chemicals.
02 January 2002
I walked around Trondheim, shooting this and that, and at one point I saw these girls walking across a little footbridge.
16 May 2023
Ex-con is released from jail, goes through release procedure, buys a gun, tries to pick up girl in bar, tries to sleep, meets up with ex-prison buddy, goes to take revenge on drug deal gone sour.
03 January 2002
Arbor Fugue is made from “outs” material from the installation piece, Trinity. I felt that the material made for an interesting re-working of the nature of the musical form of the fugue, in which motifs are returned to again and again in new forms.
26 January 2014
Empire Prairie, where Lonnie Enright grew up. He's headed home now, to see his ailing father and little brother.
01 October 1997
A portrait of the London city - including tourist sites and trading markets.
01 January 2010
Swimming in Nebraska
05 July 2020
Impressions from the American Independence Day celebrations in Butte, Montana: evening mood, American flag on the veranda, barbecue, firecrackers, fireworks.
15 January 2015
A movie by Jon Jost, who is the maestro of the American experimental movie world. The film tells us the strange incidents that happen in the ruined old village.
06 September 1987
Plain Talk is a complex essay-film, a follow-up a decade and some years later to Speaking Directly, and so another State of the Nation discourse, made for Britain's Channel Four in the year 1986-87.
01 January 1981
An essay-film on language and theater, on human communication - intellectual in content, but purely poetic in terms of form: image, sound, language, cinema.
01 January 2009
Jon Jost: "RANT is a discursive portrait of Steven Lack, actor (Cronenberg's Scanners, Alan Moyle's Rubber Gun, Jost's All the Vermeers in New York) and full-time painter/artist in the New York scene since the late 1970's.
09 September 2004
Newport, Oregon. In a coastal town, Jeff and his wife Mattie work together facing the economic shifts.
01 January 2011
"Imagens de uma cidade perdida" is a portrait of an old area of Lisbon, primarily the Alfama, but also other central areas - Castelo São Jorge, Graça, Bairro Alto, and elsewhere.
12 December 2018
The wood song weaved as if it were a dream.
19 March 1971
"PRIMARIES is a simple film which merely establishes a definition of 'politics'. Its narrative moves in paragraph blocks, with each sentence accompanied by different pictures of a young woman's hands, feet, torso, face… A TURNING POINT IN LUNATIC CHINA provides a critique of the methods of communication employed by my fellow Leftists.
22 February 2008
After being thrown out of his house, a cowboy hits the road in a senseless wave of robbery, murder and rape.
01 January 2004
In the fall of 2003, Jon Jost walks with his camera through the garden of Waseda University in Tokyo.
01 January 2011
Meditative piece of abstract video art rooted in Christian iconography.
24 November 2023
A lyrical oblique film.
01 January 1980
The famous French film director Jean-Luc Godard is interviewed by British film theorist Peter Wollen and the editor of Framework Don Ranveaud.
17 March 1986
A telling story of an unemployed Vietnam vet in Butte, Montana, whose wife leaves him after seven years when she feels there is no longer communication between them and - more painfully and pointedly - because she is unable to have a child owing to his sterility from exposure to Agent Orange.
01 May 1992
A parable of the missteps of life enacted in the hothouse world of late 1980’s New York, in which the art market and the stock market each boomed, and in process spawned a smorgasbord of “yuppie” delusions which still persist.
12 October 1991
This film is a record of the first Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. It reflects the various ways the festival was given shape by nascent global changes embodied by Perestroika, the Tiananmen Square massacre, and many other contemporaneous events.
31 December 1970
“A silent perusal of the Grand Canyon, morning to night, from a single, fixed camera position, by means of constant dissolves spaced a few seconds apart.
22 August 2012
Taking inspiration from the collaborative 1967 militant anthology film Far from Vietnam, five of the boldest and most prominent American militant filmmakers unite to create this searing (and seething) omnibus work, employing a variety of approaches to reveal the hidden costs of the United States' (and Canada's) most expensive and longest-running war.
18 October 1976
A detective fiction mixed with an essay-documentary about Los Angeles, Hollywood and the film industry, Angel City is a satiric comedy with serious intentions.
25 September 1993
A Paul Joyce documentary on the American independent film scene.
01 January 1963
The aesthetic moves progressively from loose “underground” means using expressionistic camera movement, multiple exposures, droning sequences and shock cut towards a static, didactic form of “documentary” marked with long takes, minimal camera movement, a surface concentration on showing how things are.
23 January 2000
An essay film/documentary perusing matters of art, society, history, and a grab-bag of the author's interests, which also serves as a primer to the aesthetics of digital video.
30 August 2024
Perhaps at first glance, the filmography of Silvio Narizzano appears unremarkable. Thanks to his sleeper hit Georgy Girl (1966), he's known largely as a "one-hit wonder" director.
01 January 1994
An American independent director comes to Italy to shoot a film. But inconveniences and obstacles stand in the way at every step.
12 September 1990
Set in the quasi-Biblical splendor of the Mormon Dixie of central Utah, Sure Fire follows the trajectory of an American archetype, the small town entrepreneur seized by visions of fortune.
01 January 2009
In October 2008, Jon Jost is standing with his camera in the waiting area of a train station in the USA, filming the other travelers: a mother with a child, the cleaning service, businesspeople on the phone, the conductor who falls in love and says goodbye to his wife.
22 July 2018
Short film by Jon Jost.
11 May 2024
A fictional/documentary tone-poem, making for a kind of portrait of the town of Walkerville, Montana, and of the lead actor, Gary Winterholler, who had suffered a severe stroke several years earlier and was in a process of recuperation.
25 December 2016
Coming out of an accident with amnesia, Sophie Bauer tries to reshape herself in the eyes of those who knew her best.
21 August 1992
Two HIV-positive young men — a semi-employed film critic and a hot hustler — tear off on a cross-country crime spree.
20 January 1999
Nas Correntes de Luz da Ria Formosa (In the Rays of Light of Ria Formosa) is a kind of documentary shot over a period of 3 months in summer of 1997 and then edited over the next 2 and a half years.
13 August 2018
The war in Mali is seen through a kaleidoscope that gives the whole thing an unexpected beauty and fascination.
01 December 2006
Placed in a small seaside area north of Rome, of late popular with the intelligentsia and artists, La Lunga Ombra provides a portrait of 3 professional women under the hidden duress of post 9-11 Italy, and more broadly, Europe.
01 January 2014
Bowman Lake is a single image film of Bowman Lake, sunrise to sunset.
01 January 2000
ROMA is a hastily drawn together documentary/essay on Rome, drawn from a large amount of material collected over two or three years, and put together in haste for an Italian television commission.
01 January 2002
A wedding in Rome. Jost watches a bride and groom on the street, their swinging white dress, his festive suit, walking together on cobblestones.
04 May 1982
Reel 18 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.
16 January 2023
Travel video by Jon Jost
05 June 2004
Vergessensfuge is a meditation on the psychology of obedience and submission, in this instance springing from a handful of photographs taken in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp immediately after its liberation in 1945.
