Jon Jost

Jost's work examines issues such as the lasting effects of the Vietnam war, capitalism and consumerism, sex and class conflicts and, in his ten-part documentary series "Plain Talk and Common Sense (uncommon senses)" (1988), the US as myth and institution. An engaging, unconventional storyteller, he is noted for his long takes and improvised dialogue (he has rarely used scripts). In early 1991 Jost was the subject of a retrospective at New York's Museum of Modern Art.