David Matthew Johnson
Directing
Biography
David Matthew Johnson is the Octopus King
Known For
She carries He, a forever sleeping man.
Ode to the Whale of Christ
Quinn receives a poem on why things ended.
Quinn
The pain of loss will lead you to push away those who love you. The comfort of wine and self pity is enough solace for a broken man.
The Ballad of Cheap Burgundy
Cicada is loved and reached towards with warmth and affection. He ignores repeatedly. By the time Cicada realizes his true feelings, it is too late.
Cicada, I Love You - Cicada's Too Late; The Wind & Other Things
A man aimlessly wanders around town and silently judges the people he sees. The thoughts and judgments slowly becomes more aggressive and hateful as he continues to watch the those around him. This film covers the dangers of extremism and getting carried away with illogical hate. The people stirring the pot generally not carrying out the action but getting the poor and the working class to battle with each other.
The Sublime Hubris
An ethical rationalization in contrasting Sisyphus and The Binding of Isaac, from the point of view of an ethical man. A meditation on the Absurd.
Sisyphus and The Abraham
A film on silence, life, and stillness. A man is asleep through everyday tasks. Waking up, taking a shower, eating, going to work, taking a break, relaxing at the end of the day, and going back to sleep. Eternally asleep, never waking up.
Fire & Outer Darkness
A love letter to Minneapolis, Minnesota Nice, and Myself. Twin City Sympathies is represented through repeating visuals of Hennepin Ave Bridge, heading towards the heart of downtown on a foggy day. The narration representing half of the Twin Cities, Minneapolis, voicing the ironically surface level kindness of Minnesota Nice. Passive aggressive, but friendly - warmly welcoming, but coldly distant. David Matthew Johnson relates these defining Minnesota traits to his own personal expression of self.
Twin City Sympathies
A collaboration between Tristan Turner and David Matthew Johnson
Acid Threnody
A Tribute to David Lynch
Unified Field of Being
A meditation on Purgatory. "A figure pushes through the amniotic fluid of whispers of centuries of faith without ever surfacing in When Wisdom Speaks; Another Withering Spinal Cord & The Necessity of Purgation, starkly minimal piece from David Matthew Johnson, a 2024 CineSalon Artist in Focus." - CineSalon
When Wisdom Speaks; Another Withering Spinal Cord & The Necessity of Purgation
A meditation on the thieves on the Cross.
Be Ye Therefore Merciful and They Will Throw Them into the Furnace of Fire - In That Place There Will be Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth; The Execution of Moan & Sunset
A trial of temptations.
The Sixth Film of The Octopus; Filth
A day in the life of an individual who is fading into the everyday reality of everyday reality.
The Prosaic Effigy
The beauty and boredom of the mundane day to day of life.
An Evaluation of Life & Death
Meditations on the Hail Mary. A film dedicated to my mother, staring the mother of my child, about the mother of God.