They Had It Coming
The latest film from Jon Jost, the doyen of American independent film, whose films include Coming to Terms screened at the 2014 American Film Festival is, much like his previous works, marked by the artist's experimental style that often explores the nature of time and memory, probes the limits of the cinematic image and focuses closely on the American mentality. The director weaves the script for the minimalist They Had It Coming from several interlacing stories about strange events in a Missouri town. The film has no traditional plot and the story becomes the main protagonist, being passed from mouth to mouth with successive characters appearing in the nearly empty frame before the camera. Though the script references actual events, the truth intermingles with local gossip and realism with fancy.
Jon Jost
(b. 1943, Chicago) He is a classic figure of American independent film. During his stormy youth, he was expelled from school and actively involved in the peace movement. He began to make films in the early 1960s and has since produced over 70 short and feature-length movies. In most cases, he was not only the director, but also the producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor and wrote the score. New York's MoMA devoted a retrospective to his work in 1991.
Selected filmography
1963 Portrait
1973 Speaking Directly
1977 Last Chants for a Slow Dance
1990 All the Vermeers in New York
2007 Over Here
2013 Pojednanie / Coming to Terms
