Russ Johnson
* in Detroit.
Russ Johnson is a Cooper Union graduate. During his college years he worked as an assistant to video artist Ira Schneider, painters Richard Hambleton and Yvonne Jacquette, and photographer Rudy Burckhardt. Later he worked with the non-profit video art organization Raindance Foundation, curated the TV show "Night Light TV" and has been showing media art since 1984. Since 1988, he has worked with Taly Johnson whom he married in 1992. Russ Johnson works in the field of video, photography, collage and book art. He lives in New York City.
Official website: http://www.talyandruss.com/
FILMS directed by RUSS JOHNSON
Nam June Paik's Fingerprints
USA 2006
A portrait of the artist Nam June Paik through a collage of his own edits. - Together with Taly Johnson.
Presented by VIS within the context of:
VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2006, video installation
Other presentations:
Festival Images contre nature Marseille 2006
Festival der Nationen Ebensee 2006
Festival Internacional de Curtas-Metragens de Sao Paulo 2007
OTHER FILMS:
Together with Taly Johnson:
Side Effects (2007) | Leisure Class - I love You More (2007) | No Limit (2006) | Surveillance (2005) | Nine Brief Pieces Redux (2004) | Ramones Raw (2004) | Stream (2003) | Theme Park Fun (2003) | The Rutles, together again (2003) | After (2002) | Nonstop (2002) | Warthog for Dee Dee Ramone (2002) | Egg (2000) | Pot (2000) | A Few Important Messages For Our Viewers (2000) | A Word From Our Sponsor (2000) | Debate 2000 (2000) | Snack Time (2000) | a miracle (2000) | Intermission Time (2000) | One More Thing (version 4) (1999) | Expecting (1999) | The Big Cement Thing (1999) | Nicotine (1999) | William (Bill) Jefferson Clinton (1999) | Life Cycle (1999) | Silent Voices (1998) | One More Thing (version 1) (1998) | Presidential Debate (abridged) (1998) | David and Anne-Rene Together (1997) | Nine Brief Pieces (1996) | I Remember (1996) | Freds, Fish, Fresh Air (1996) | Performance with Birds and Broken Glass (1995) | Christmas Television (1995) | Chanukah Television (1995) | Performance with TV and The Written Word (1995) | Little Bytes (1995) | Fruit Cake (1995) | The Finger Guy, Out West And Beyond (1994) | Mike Rimbaud "Treasure Chest Cancer" (1994) | A Few Protests And A Parade (A Journal Of Gulf War Protests) (1993) | Arachnovision (1993) | Presidential Debate, Abridged (1992) | Waiting for the Plumber (1992) | Channel 44 (1992) | James Bay (1992) | Joey Ramone and the Resistance "Cencorshit" (1992) | The Element Of Surprise "Video Dream" (1992) | Leisure Class "I Love You More" (1992) | Gulf War Protests in New York City (presented as a work in progress) (1991) | Video Greeting Card (1991) | 4th of July In Saugerties (1991) | Executive Slacks "Firestick" (1990) | Live With A Bag Of Cement (1990) | George Bush: A Video Portrait (1990) | Wild Focus (1990) | John and Lynn's Excellent Adventure (1990) | Jason and Huma (1989) | The Holy Inquisition Thunder Storm (1989) | Lords of the Dead, In Concert, with Stiv Bators (1989) | Sid Vicious "C'mon Everybody" (1988) | Gretta (1988) | The 1988 Greenwich Village Halloween Parade (1988) | Camper Van Beethoven "Eye of Fatima" (1988) | Nixon In 88! (1987) | Concrete (1987) | 20 Pieces, Summer 87 (1987) | You and me on the Frozen Trail (1987) | Rob Rodriguez: SKATESTYLE (1987) | Paul Hodge's I Love NY, The Tour (1987) | Surf MC's "Surf Or Die" (1987) | The Bellevue Disclaimer (1987) | Richard Hambleton - Beauty and The Beast, paintings (1987) | Kool King Will Not Eat Bananas (1987) | Between St. Marks and Great Neck (1987) | Hawaii 5-Over (1986) | The Ballad of The Green Berets (1986) | Untitled #2 (melting cake) (1986) | Two Or Three Things I Know About Syracuse, New York (1986) | Chair Anatomy (1986) | Heavy Metal Laser Meta Spectacle (1986) | A Man Sitting (1985) | Condemned Shoes (1985) | No. 1 with a Bullet (Madonna) (1985) | Forever King (1985) | Something About Boston (1985) | Marriage Rules! (1985) | Historia Calimatium (The Story of My Misfortunes) (1984) | A Weekend At The Beach With Mr. Unique... (1984)
Solo:
Harvey (1982)