J.J. Johnston

Finding Groovopolis

A man seeks fatherly advice by creating scenes from a never-produced comedic screenplay written by his late dad. The scenes eerily show up in and influence the filmmaker’s own life, yielding an excavation of family, legacy, and navigating adulthood.

The Manual

In a dystopian future, the last human is raised by a machine. He struggles with the loneliness of no human interaction and questions the teachings of a mysterious religious 'Manual' which the machine claims is holy.