John's Gone

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Oslo International Film Festival
2010

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Directed by: Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie

year: 2010 22 minutes

Official selection of the 2010 Venice Biennale.

JOHN'S GONE is a fever dream comedy. John sells things online, cheats off dollar stores, needs friends but settles for strangers, has roaches. He is punch drunk, not with love but something far more strange and lost. One can only say John's gone. With JOHN'S GONE, the Safdie brothers fully embrace the aesthetic of consumer-quality video, adding a touch of depravity to the proceedings and suggesting a time-out-of-joint aspect to the short that (visually) seems to date from two decades earlier.

Reviews

dschweisguth

Really funny, even before the monkey shows up. Despite its silliness, however, "Gone" is believable. It's easy to imagine a real person living their life in as out-of-touch a way as John. You probably even know one or two. What does that say about society?