Denah A. Johnston
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FILMOGRAPHY


Devil’s Dairymaid 16mm 7:30 min. b&w sound (2009)
(Collaboration with Kym Farmen)   
A dairymaid is lured into a dark forest by mischievous and ominous spirits. She discovers a magical churn in a clearing and churns until she becomes “electrified.” 

Desiring Just Economies/Just Economies of Desire:“Oh Economy, Up Yours!” Berlin, Germany 2010
Queer/Feminist Critiques of the Economy and Capitalism Conference Berlin, Germany 2010
Queer Salon Berlin, Germany 2010
"Canyon Cinema's Queer Underground" San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival San Francisco, California 2009

Best Experimental Film Athens International Film & Video Festival Athens, Ohio 2009 
Finalist Perv Queerotic Film Festival Sydney, Australia 2009 




anomie 16mm 7:30 min. b&w sound (2004)
History repeats itself . . . into the future . . . 

Canyon Cinema: Metamorphosis National Gallery of Art Washington, DC August 2014
Braquage Paris, France March 2014

They Might Well Have Been Remnants of the Boat presented by the Calder Foundation New York, New York 2013

Basement Media Festival Boston, Massachusetts 2010
Best Experimental Film Fargo Film Festival Fargo, North Dakota 2010
Live @ 8 
(Curated by Vivienne Dick) Galway, Ireland 2010
Threat Level Chicago, Illinois 2008
Alternative Requirements: Pacific Film Archive Berkeley, California 2004
San Francisco Visual Artist’s Festival San Francisco Art Institute San Francisco, California 2004




transubstantiation 16mm 3:28 min. b&w sound (2004)
"real and essential presence" imply also a "substantial presence," or transubstantiation.

Open Cinema: Art Center Bereg St. Petersberg, Russia 2007
Athens International Film & Video Festival Athens, Ohio 2007
Notthatbalai: (Curated by Janis Crystal Lipzin) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2007
Officinema Festival (Curated by Janis Crystal Lipzin) Cinetecca di Bologna Bologna, Italy 2004




flux 16mm 5:47 min. b&w sound (2003)
The spaces between memory and perception, dream and waking reveal themselves on the film surface. Glimpses, impressions, momentary clarity shifts to obscurity and afterimage. This is a film about film, a film that is process-oriented and takes its time. Finding a language without speech, communication is possible by other means. 

Open Cinema: Art Center Bereg St. Petersberg, Russia 2007
Notthatbalai (Curated by Janis Crystal Lipzin) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2007
Officinema Festival (Curated by Janis Crystal Lipzin) Cinetecca di Bologna Bologna, Italy 2004
Best Experimental Film Athens International Film & Video Festival, Athens, Ohio 2004
Alternative Requirements: Pacific Film Archive Berkeley, California 2004


don’t explain 16mm 6 min. b&w silent (2003)
A city symphony of kinetic movement in the concrete jungle, yearning for an open horizon and the tranquility of water lapping on the shore. 

Fresh Works: New Nothing Cinema San Francisco, California 2003     
  

china(town) 16mm 5 min. b&w silent (2002)
Small quiet moments captured in the hustle and bustle of San Francisco’s Chinatown.    


Alternative Requirements: Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California 2002
Cinema Currents: New Nothing Cinema, San Francisco, California 2003
    

Vertigo . . . or an Attempt to Retrace the Steps of Hitchcock DV 5 min. color sound (2002)
(Collaboration with Amy Romano)
Revisiting a number of San Francisco locations used in the filming of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo.      

Officinema Festival (Curated by Janis Crystal Lipzin) Cinetecca di Bologna Bologna, Italy 2004


television (study) super 8mm 3 min. color silent (2002)
Insomniac fuelled stop-motion study of late night infomercials and B-movies.    


library (study) super 8mm 3 min. color silent (2002)   
Stop-motion study of select contents of my library.    


sunflowers (study) super 8mm 3 min. color silent (2002)
Stop-motion study of sunflowers in the Tuscan breeze mirrored by laundry on the line.


(e) 16mm 3 min. b&w/color sound (2002)
Hand-made found footage experimentation.


the ridges 16mm 8 min. b&w/color silent (1999)
A meditation on Ingmar Bergman's Persona as shot in a former mental hospital.


one way 4 min. video color sound (1998)
Performance and non-performance via editing experiments in the spirit of Eisenstein's montage theory.

Athens International Film & Video Festival Athens, Ohio 1998

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