
Directing
David Matthew Johnson
Born
1990-01-30 (36)
Known for
Directing
Credits
36 titles
David Matthew Johnson is the Octopus King
Known for
NRQuinn receives a poem on why things ended.
Quinn
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NRA meditation on Purgatory. "A figure pushes through the amniotic fluid of whispers of centuries of faith without ever surfacing in When Wisdom Speaks; Another Withering Spinal Cord & The Necessity of Purgation, starkly minimal piece from David Matthew Johnson, a 2024 CineSalon Artist in Focus." - CineSalon
When Wisdom Speaks; Another Withering Spinal Cord & The Necessity of Purgation
2025
NRThe beauty and boredom of the mundane day to day of life.
An Evaluation of Life & Death
2025
NRA Tribute to David Lynch
Unified Field of Being
2025
NRA man aimlessly wanders around town and silently judges the people he sees. The thoughts and judgments slowly becomes more aggressive and hateful as he continues to watch the those around him. This film covers the dangers of extremism and getting carried away with illogical hate. The people stirring the pot generally not carrying out the action but getting the poor and the working class to battle with each other.
The Sublime Hubris
2024
NRA trial of temptations.
The Sixth Film of The Octopus; Filth
2025
Film credits
2020s · 6 titles
NRA meditation on Purgatory. "A figure pushes through the amniotic fluid of whispers of centuries of faith without ever surfacing in When Wisdom Speaks; Another Withering Spinal Cord & The Necessity of Purgation, starkly minimal piece from David Matthew Johnson, a 2024 CineSalon Artist in Focus." - CineSalon
When Wisdom Speaks; Another Withering Spinal Cord & The Necessity of Purgation
2025
NRA man aimlessly wanders around town and silently judges the people he sees. The thoughts and judgments slowly becomes more aggressive and hateful as he continues to watch the those around him. This film covers the dangers of extremism and getting carried away with illogical hate. The people stirring the pot generally not carrying out the action but getting the poor and the working class to battle with each other.
The Sublime Hubris
2024
NRA trial of temptations.
The Sixth Film of The Octopus; Filth
2025
NRAn ethical rationalization in contrasting Sisyphus and The Binding of Isaac, from the point of view of an ethical man. A meditation on the Absurd.
Sisyphus and The Abraham
2025
NRA love letter to Minneapolis, Minnesota Nice, and Myself. Twin City Sympathies is represented through repeating visuals of Hennepin Ave Bridge, heading towards the heart of downtown on a foggy day. The narration representing half of the Twin Cities, Minneapolis, voicing the ironically surface level kindness of Minnesota Nice. Passive aggressive, but friendly - warmly welcoming, but coldly distant. David Matthew Johnson relates these defining Minnesota traits to his own personal expression of self.
Twin City Sympathies
2025
NRA film on silence, life, and stillness. A man is asleep through everyday tasks. Waking up, taking a shower, eating, going to work, taking a break, relaxing at the end of the day, and going back to sleep. Eternally asleep, never waking up.
Fire & Outer Darkness
2025
Behind the camera
NRQuinn receives a poem on why things ended.
Quinn
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NRA meditation on Purgatory. "A figure pushes through the amniotic fluid of whispers of centuries of faith without ever surfacing in When Wisdom Speaks; Another Withering Spinal Cord & The Necessity of Purgation, starkly minimal piece from David Matthew Johnson, a 2024 CineSalon Artist in Focus." - CineSalon
When Wisdom Speaks; Another Withering Spinal Cord & The Necessity of Purgation
2025
NRThe beauty and boredom of the mundane day to day of life.
An Evaluation of Life & Death
2025
NRA Tribute to David Lynch
Unified Field of Being
2025
NRA Tribute to David Lynch
Unified Field of Being
2025
NRA man aimlessly wanders around town and silently judges the people he sees. The thoughts and judgments slowly becomes more aggressive and hateful as he continues to watch the those around him. This film covers the dangers of extremism and getting carried away with illogical hate. The people stirring the pot generally not carrying out the action but getting the poor and the working class to battle with each other.
The Sublime Hubris
2024
NRA man aimlessly wanders around town and silently judges the people he sees. The thoughts and judgments slowly becomes more aggressive and hateful as he continues to watch the those around him. This film covers the dangers of extremism and getting carried away with illogical hate. The people stirring the pot generally not carrying out the action but getting the poor and the working class to battle with each other.
The Sublime Hubris
2024
NRA man aimlessly wanders around town and silently judges the people he sees. The thoughts and judgments slowly becomes more aggressive and hateful as he continues to watch the those around him. This film covers the dangers of extremism and getting carried away with illogical hate. The people stirring the pot generally not carrying out the action but getting the poor and the working class to battle with each other.
The Sublime Hubris
2024
NRA trial of temptations.
The Sixth Film of The Octopus; Filth
2025
NRShe carries He, a forever sleeping man.
Ode to the Whale of Christ
2020
NRShe carries He, a forever sleeping man.
Ode to the Whale of Christ
2020
NRA man wakes up, wanders, and wonders.
A Dispensation for Lunacy
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NRA collaboration between Tristan Turner and David Matthew Johnson
Acid Threnody
2025
NRCicada is loved and reached towards with warmth and affection. He ignores repeatedly. By the time Cicada realizes his true feelings, it is too late.
Cicada, I Love You - Cicada's Too Late; The Wind & Other Things
2024
NRCicada is loved and reached towards with warmth and affection. He ignores repeatedly. By the time Cicada realizes his true feelings, it is too late.
Cicada, I Love You - Cicada's Too Late; The Wind & Other Things
2024
NRCicada is loved and reached towards with warmth and affection. He ignores repeatedly. By the time Cicada realizes his true feelings, it is too late.
Cicada, I Love You - Cicada's Too Late; The Wind & Other Things
2024
NRMeditations on the Hail Mary. A film dedicated to my mother, staring the mother of my child, about the mother of God.
The Thirteenth Film of The Octopus; Grace
2025
NRA meditation on the thieves on the Cross.
Be Ye Therefore Merciful and They Will Throw Them into the Furnace of Fire - In That Place There Will be Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth; The Execution of Moan & Sunset
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NRAn ethical rationalization in contrasting Sisyphus and The Binding of Isaac, from the point of view of an ethical man. A meditation on the Absurd.
Sisyphus and The Abraham
2025
NRAn ethical rationalization in contrasting Sisyphus and The Binding of Isaac, from the point of view of an ethical man. A meditation on the Absurd.
Sisyphus and The Abraham
2025
NRThe pain of loss will lead you to push away those who love you. The comfort of wine and self pity is enough solace for a broken man.
The Ballad of Cheap Burgundy
2024
NRA love letter to Minneapolis, Minnesota Nice, and Myself. Twin City Sympathies is represented through repeating visuals of Hennepin Ave Bridge, heading towards the heart of downtown on a foggy day. The narration representing half of the Twin Cities, Minneapolis, voicing the ironically surface level kindness of Minnesota Nice. Passive aggressive, but friendly - warmly welcoming, but coldly distant. David Matthew Johnson relates these defining Minnesota traits to his own personal expression of self.
Twin City Sympathies
2025
NRA love letter to Minneapolis, Minnesota Nice, and Myself. Twin City Sympathies is represented through repeating visuals of Hennepin Ave Bridge, heading towards the heart of downtown on a foggy day. The narration representing half of the Twin Cities, Minneapolis, voicing the ironically surface level kindness of Minnesota Nice. Passive aggressive, but friendly - warmly welcoming, but coldly distant. David Matthew Johnson relates these defining Minnesota traits to his own personal expression of self.
Twin City Sympathies
2025
NRA film on silence, life, and stillness. A man is asleep through everyday tasks. Waking up, taking a shower, eating, going to work, taking a break, relaxing at the end of the day, and going back to sleep. Eternally asleep, never waking up.
Fire & Outer Darkness
2025
NRA film on silence, life, and stillness. A man is asleep through everyday tasks. Waking up, taking a shower, eating, going to work, taking a break, relaxing at the end of the day, and going back to sleep. Eternally asleep, never waking up.
Fire & Outer Darkness
2025
NRA day in the life of an individual who is fading into the everyday reality of everyday reality.
The Prosaic Effigy
2025
NRA day in the life of an individual who is fading into the everyday reality of everyday reality.
The Prosaic Effigy
2025
NRA man desires to be a painter.
I Fed it Napalm
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