STILL LIFE
FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
In early 2014, a proud population became test fodder when a mysterious coal-cleaning chemical spilled directly into West Virginia’s capital city water supply. Although the spill garnered headlines across the country, little changed in this neglected realm. With dreamlike imagery these disparate voices chorus in a singular question: has this land already died, or is there Still Life?
Filmed and Directed by Johnny Saint Ours.
SCREENPLAYS BY JSO:
SELFLESS
SEASON ONE SCREENPLAY
digital series
Dante's Divine Comedy who-done-it story of drugs, sex and the Salton Sea.
The LAST MARINER
feature screenplay
An historical (science) fiction about a multi-generational voyage, the dawn of art, Microfiche, and Tang abound in this story of the dawn of art, the end of the world, and the bond of tragic love between father and son.
SHOT AT WAR
feature screenplay
The twisted fates of a vigilante woman and an idealist photographer in a war-ravaged land of grim opportunity.
WILDBAD
serial feature screenplay
IN A WORLD... where facts obfuscate truth... Our world:
A loner's quest to reunite with his love twists him through the absurdity of our modern predicament. An odyssey of realist impressionism, with action, justice, and lucid discovery.
WAR BY DESIGN
an episodic series screenplay
Game of Thrones meets Indiana Jones on The Thin Red Line in this on-going series of period drama, action, black-comedy and philosophical exploration in what is arguably considered the closed case of the Greatest War.
ECLIPSED
an episodic proposal
A story of young love, paternal redemption, bloodshed; the coming-of-age tale of a feral child... in space.
Short film screenplays:
BREAKING ICE - A single mother makes a desperate sacrifice, and the audience must reexamine what we think we know about immigration law.
WOLF BABY - A single dad struggles to adjust to life with a werewolf, as a daughter.
ONLY ONE - After toiling to restore a WWII bomber with loving attention to detail, a father and son duo exact revenge on what we might have presumed a hero of patriotic nostalgia.
THE LAST WAVE - A post-apocalyptic setting, in which the balance of all opposites is null, man and woman, sea and earth, all are now at odds. One man tries to pass on his knowledge to his sheltered son, but it seems too late.
The FUTURE MACHINE - The year is 2008, or maybe it's 1994... a tragedy of time travel and guilty denial at the onset of a smartphone promising to hold the 'future in your hands'.
LOOSIE LUCY - A bomber crew quickly resets from one attack, preparing for their next mission; their process seems disturbingly familiar.
DAMAGED - Love is a battlefield, or in this case, a demolition derby.
OCTOPUS - A balloon, dreaming he's a human, has the uncanny ability to return to the woman from whom, by wind, he was taken.
LOVE, WOLFMAN - A domesticated werewolf finds the monster under his bed.