JONATHAN JOHNSON
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River Ghosts (2018, USA/Thailand)

Experimental short, 5 mins.,  super 8mm transferred to digital, color, sound
Synopsis:  In this experimental documentary, an unseen filmmaker uses unseen memories to follow traces of his deceased grandparents throughout urban and rural Thailand.  Loosely following  a travelogue-essay format, the search for identity is intertwined with the old and new history of rural and urban Thailand.
Selected Screenings: L'Alternativa (Barcelona, Spain), Leiden Short Film Experience (Netherlands), CutLog: Moving Image Art: Royal Scottish Academy (Edinburgh, UK), Esto Es para Esto (Monterrey, Mexico), CineKasimanwa:  Western Visayas Film Festival (Iloilo City, Philippines), IV Video Festival nodoCCS at Art | Banchel (Madrid, Spain), Hazel Eye Film Festival (Lipscomb College), Society for Photographic Education Media Festival (Cleveland, OH), Festival Video nodoCCS (Caracas, Venezuela), Bolivar Art Gallery (University of Kentucky), Experimental Film Festival (Birmingham, UK), Walthamstow International Film Festival (UK), CODEC International Experimental Film and Video Festival (Caracas, Venezuela), Rebecca Randall Bryan Art Gallery @ Coastal Carolina University (Myrtle Beach, SC), C.A.V.E. Festival, curated by Jonathan Rattner (Minneapolis, MN), Stream - Visual Media Art Festival (Wharf Chambers, Leeds, UK), Stream - Visual Media Art Festival (Middlesborough, UK)





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  • FILM
    • Fjord Time
    • High Coast Diary
    • Silent Garden
    • Forest Language
    • A Story From Shaba's Family Hairstyling
    • I'm Listening, I'm Listening
    • Low Season
    • River Ghosts
    • Flee
    • Mountain Funeral
    • Archival Footage Experimental Films
  • Photography
    • Outer Hebrides
    • The Space Between Two Rocks
    • Backyard Topographic
    • Excerpts from Low Season and Green Country
    • Invisible Being
    • Buildings of Skagaströnd
    • Sky Grid
    • Walking Paths of Saxnäs
    • Collage and Postcard
    • Húnaflói
    • Photo Zines
  • about
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