Jon Jost
Jon Jost ( born May 16, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American film director, screenwriter, cinematographer and editor. He works as an independent filmmaker.
Life
Jon Jost grew up in the U.S. states of Georgia, Kansas, and Virginia as well as in Japan, Italy and Germany. In 1963, he left college and began to turn 16- mm films. The self-taught Jost made 20 short and 14 feature films. All these films he made in personal union as a director, screenwriter, cinematographer and editor. He produced many of his works himself. Since 1996 he has worked primarily in the digital video technology.
1965 Jost was imprisoned for 2 years and 3 months because he refused to cooperate with the Selective Service System. After his release, he was politically active. He built up the Chicago Department of Newsreel, a left production and distribution company. He was also a board member of the 1970 Canyon Coop '.
1974 turned Jost his first feature film. His topics were diverse: from essays to fiction and avant -garde; the works were often presented in museums and film festivals. A complete retrospective of Jon Jost's work was shown in 1991 by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. This exhibition toured in the U.S. and has been shown in Washington DC, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco. In Europe, the exhibition was particularly seen in Italy.
Jost's films were purchased by film and television companies in the UK, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Hungary, Russia and Japan.
Copies of the works are in the Museum of Modern Art, the British Film Institute, the Arsenal - Institute for Film and Video Art, the Royal Film Archive in Belgium, in the Cinemateca in Portugal, in Bologna archives, the Instituto Luce in Rome,. the Filmoteca in Madrid, when Yamaguta Festival in Japan, and at the National Film library of Australia. Jost came to enjoy numerous memberships, including two by the German Academic Exchange Service and two NEA Media Production Grant.
1997 Jost was invited to produce a feature-length film after own ideas to support the exhibition and sponsor Sony for Documenta X in Kassel. The organizers of Documenta could not keep their promises, so that Jost had ceased its employees before the end of the film works.
Today Jost is professor at the Graduate School of Communication and Arts at Yonsei University in Seoul.
Awards
On many film festivals for independent films Jost's work has been excellent. He was honored twice at the Berlin Film Festival 1991 with the Caligan Film Award for All the Vermeers in New York and in 1993 with the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury for The Bed You Sleep in.
More prices: Bronze Pink Camuna the Film Meeting in Bologna in 1988; FIPRESCI Prize at the International Documentary Film Festival of Yamagata, 1997; Grand Prize of the International Festival of New Film in Split 2005. During Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose Jost was honored with the Maverick Tribute Award.