Jon Jost

Jon Jost

Born: May 16, 1943
in 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.

Movies for Jon Jost...

Pequenos Milagres
Title: Pequenos Milagres
Character: Himself
Released: November 20, 2019
Type: Movie
A film that Jon Jost dedicated to his daughter Clara, an artistically designed home movie and at the same time a look back at his life, mostly commented off-screen by Jon Jost. He used the technology of the digital camera which contrasts nicely with his newly discovered love for watercolor painting.
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Mod Fuck Explosion
Title: Mod Fuck Explosion
Character: Drummer
Released: April 1, 1994
Type: Movie
West Side Story meets Rumble in the Bronx meets A Clockwork Orange. Bizarre tale of London, a lonely teen yearning for affection and a leather jacket who lives in a dysfunctional family home where the mother keeps popping and sexually playing with her other child, X-Ray, a member of a gang of Mods who are constantly at war with a gang of Asian Bikers. Amidst this turmoil, London and her soul mate M16 search for meaning in a phantasmagoria without it.
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Made in the USA
Title: Made in the USA
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 1993
Type: Movie
A Paul Joyce documentary on the American independent film scene.
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A Movie Capital
Title: A Movie Capital
Character: Self
Released: October 12, 1991
Type: Movie
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.
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Slow Moves
Title: Slow Moves
Character: Man Behind Counter
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
A bluesy lyrical romance of two ugly-ducklings who meet on the Golden Gate Bridge and after a brief and awkward courtship, live together with the usual problems of money and work, take flight to an illusory freedom on the road, and dances inexorably to a drab doom.
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Cinématon XVIII
Title: Cinématon XVIII
Character: N°171
Released: May 4, 1982
Type: Movie
Reel 18 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.
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Nightshift
Title: Nightshift
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
It is night and, in the foyer of a small hotel, a receptionist performs her tasks, unhurried and impassive, her face ghost-white, an emotional mask. Like the camera, she gazes steadily, both silent spectator and vicarious participant in the fantasies played out by the hotel's transient guests. As the night progresses, she answers a phone, hands over a key; guests pass back and forth gradually taking on a dream-like presence. She continues to work and, when morning comes, she leaves, her nightshift over. 'NIGHTSHIFT shows what film can do if the conventional pace of narrative is slowed down and montage diminished. It is not a new idea, of course, but the way it is done here is both absorbing to look at and satisfying from the moral point of view.' (Jill Forbes, Monthly Film Bulletin)
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Chameleon
Title: Chameleon
Character: Ranger
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
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.