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Born in Pennsylvania, schooled in Ithaca, and residing in Brooklyn, Dominic DeJoseph is an award-winning documentarian and music video director.
After honing his craft in Ithaca College's world-renowned Media department, DeJoseph moved down south to Athens, Georgia, where he found work with C-Hundred Film Corp, the independent film production company owned by R.E.M. singer Michael Stipe. Between 1995 and 2004, the director helmed music videos for several well-known acts, including L.A. pop band The Dandy Warhols, indie-rock up-and-comers The Stills, and Stipe's indie rock supergroup, R.E.M.
Meanwhile, he also finished two documentaries: THE ONE DOLLAR DIARY, a feature about the making of Wim Wender's Million Dollar Hotel and THE HEART OF AMERICA TOUR, a half-hour chronicle of an AIDS activist trip led by rock star Bono. The first film, an insightful look at the creative process of one of the great directors of our time, features the musicians Bono (lead singer of U2), Daniel Lanois, and Brian Eno and showed on the Independent Film Channel (IFC). The latter, which screened to accolades at 2003's Tribeca Film Festival, follows the journey of Bono, actor-comedian Chris Tucker, and Ashley Judd, as they travel across the Midwest to discuss the African AIDS epidemic with farmers, families, and politicians.
However, all of these projects were a lead-up to what is, thus far the director's masterpiece, JOHNNY BERLIN. Touted by critics and festivalgoers as one of the most original non-fiction works in years, the film is a character portrait of Jon Hyrns, a middle-aged porter on one of the last working Pullman cars in the United States. A punk music aficianado who wears his ennui and lack of ambition on his sleeve, Johnny Berlin (as he is nicknamed) performs an hypnotic monologue covering everything from his lackluster romantic life to his literary ambitions. Opening to Johnny Cash's classic ditty, "Hey Porter," the film grabs viewers from the get-go, leaving viewers to question if they too, are "semi-happy" or truly fulfilled.
This film is now available at Indiepixfilms.com. |
