Everything is Better Now
So gloriously strange.
Jonn Herschend
Raised in a midwestern amusement park, Jonn Herschend's film work explores fiction, reality and the narrative structures that we employ as a way to explain the chaos and clutter of our everyday lives. His films have been screened nationally and international, most often in the context of art museums and galleries. Recent exhibitions include Den Frie Contemporary Art Center in Copenhagen, Denmark; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He is a two time Golden Gate Award winner at the San Francisco International Film Festival and is currently co-founder and creative director of the experimental publication THE THING Quarterly. He is currently at work on a feature length narrative film.
[bio courtesy of the filmmaker]
Filmography
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Pastoral no.5
An open glade with a couple making out on a blanket foregrounds a lovely wooded hill that filmmaker, visual artist and interdisciplinarian Jonn Herschend frames for another of his chronicles of dysfunction in the workplace. The director of a film using the park as a location calls action and a...Watch Movie
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We are Not Having Any Trouble in Our Department Despite What You've Heard
Artist and filmmaker Jonn Herschend offers a delightful musing on the emotional agendas that often underlie professional relationships. A promotional video for a Danish art museum in which the spokeswoman discusses the evolution of the museum turns into a literal battle over a...Watch Movie
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Self Portrait as a PowerPoint Proposal for an Amusement Park Ride
Interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker and publisher Jonn Herschend has said he was raised in an amusement park and his sense of the absurd certainly gives a certain credence to the claim. A simple PowerPoint proposal to tear down a make-your-own sandwich shop to make way for a...Watch Movie
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Embrace of the Irrational
EMBRACE OF THE IRRATIONAL begins as what appears to be an hour long educational video written and directed by the fictitious Martin Thebes. It centers around a meditation on the Romantics' ideal of emotional confusion as a way to find truth. Then the film slowly unravels as...Watch Movie
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Everything is Better Now
EVERYTHING IS BETTER NOW is an infomercial on the importance of ambiguity in life. The main presenters start out with a cheerful and upbeat presentation but slowly become lost in their examples and drift into a personal argument regarding a handwritten note. The camera work...Watch Movie
Genres
- Avant-garde / Culture Jamming
- Comedy / Anarchic Comedy
- Comedy / Mockumentary
- Documentary / Art / Visual Arts / Painting
- Ephemera / Advertising
- Independent / Narrative
- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / European / Scandinavian / Danish
- Short / Documentary
- Short / Narrative
Recent Reviews
We are Not Having Any Trouble in Our Department Despite What You've Heard
Plays with the form. Fun. Wish it was even shorter.
Pastoral no.5
Really quite lovely. Cute.
Self Portrait as a PowerPoint Proposal for an Amusement Park Ride
Definitely more entertaining than the concepts looks on paper, and surprisingly poignant...
Embrace of the Irrational
It's always fun to watch things devolve into comedy chaos but this was not an overwhelmingly funny film. That, or I have no sense of humor. Try the film, maybe...