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.

Yellow Stone Canyon

Homecoming

Speaking Directly

Muri Romani

Over Here

Pequenos Milagres

Coming to Terms

Slow Moves

Oui Non

Blue Strait

Passages

The Bed You Sleep In

Last Chants for a Slow Dance

Bell Diamond

Sure Fire

San Lorenzo

A Death in Mali - Requiem for Empire

Mountains As Mountains, Landscape for Watanabe Shiko

Amtrak

They Had It Coming

Chameleon

13 Fragments & 3 Narratives from Life

Bowman Lake

Traps

Nas correntes de luz da ria formosa

Vergessensfuge

There's Many Friends Along This Way

All the Vermeers in New York

Frameup

Plain Talk and Common Sense (uncommon senses)

Angel City

Canyon

Godard 1980

Far from Afghanistan

30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing

Til Edvard

July 4, 2020

Fall Creek

6 Easy Pieces

Stagefright

Rembrandt Laughing

Portrait

Parable

A Walk Through Waseda Garden

Vera X 3

Tanti Auguri

Canyon II

Muri Romani II

Chhattisgarh Sketches

The Narcissus Flowers of Katsura-shima

Empire's Cross

Rant

Casa do silencio

Imagens de uma cidade perdida

Deadendz

Tourists

Wood Song

Again & Again

La lunga ombra

London Brief

Trinity

Roma - un ritratto improvvisario

Uno a me, uno a te e uno a Raffaele

Swimming in Nebraska

Walkerville

Dissonance