
Jon Jost
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- May 16, 1943 (age 83)
- Birthplace
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
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.
Known For
Filmography

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