JON’S SHORT BIO

Jon Jost is a veteran film and video-maker, having made his first work in 1963 in Casina Amata, Paderno Dugnano (Milano), Italy. Since then he’s worked continuously, making some 30+ feature length works, several dozen short films, installations, along with painting, writing, and playing and composing music (C&W). While his films are screened regularly in major festivals and small ones too, they fail almost all criteria for the present day “market economy” value system, and are more or less not shown outside the festival circuit. You can read about these films and if you want to, order DVDs of them at www.jon-jost.com.

An inveterate traveler, Jon has lived since 1962 in Chicago, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Los Angeles, Leucadia (Ca.); Cottage Grove (OR), Kalispell (MT), Berlin, London, Lisbon, Frankfurt, Paris, Rome, New York City, Portland, and Lincoln NE. He presently lives with his wife, Marcella (from Matera, Italy), in Seoul, Korea.