Liza Johnson
* 1970 in Portsmouth, Ohio.
Liza Johnson is an artist and filmmaker. She has exhibited at the Wexner Center for the Arts and the Walker Art Center, at the Centre Pompidou, in New York and in Berlin. She has published various articles on films and is an associate professor of Art at the Williams College.
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1637785/
FILMS directed by LIZA JOHNSON
In the Air
USA 2009, 22 min, HDCAM
Director/Producer: Liza Johnson | Cinematographer: Anne Etheridge | Editing: Paul Zucker | Cast: Daphany Bauer, Lee Brown, April Hobbes
In this film that is half socio-critical documentary and half exaggerated fiction, Liza Johnson, a filmmaker who grew up in Ohio, portrays her home town and its inhabitants with plenty of empathy. April works at a scrap yard, Daphany is employed at a fast food restaurant, Lee is still in school. Their glimmers of hope are the hours spent at a circus school. An extraordinary dance film.
Presented by VIS within the context of:
VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2010, Fiction and Documentary 5
Awards:
Vienna Short Film Award, VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2010
Nomination Golden Bear (Best Short Film), Berlinale 2010
OTHER FILMS:
South of Ten (2006)
Desert Motel (2005)
Falling (2004)
Fernweh – The Opposite of Homesick (2000)
Giftwrap (1998)