Jonathan Furnell is an experimental filmmaker, photographer and musician. His work meditates deeply on the supernatural, the historical and the environment, sitting somewhere between truth and myth. In his practice he works with small gauge film and “amateur” formats, eschewing industrial modes of filmmaking and favoring DIY aesthetics and production models. He is preoccupied with the spectral, the speculative and the space between sight and sound.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in Media Arts from the University of South Carolina and an MFA in Filmmaking from the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
His work has appeared in the Athens International Film and Video Festival, the Cucalorus Film Festival, Cosmic Rays Experimental Film Festival, Sidewalk Film Festival, Indie Grits Film Festival and other venues.
He is passionate about Appalachian media, archival/lost media as well as analog, experimental and collaborative film culture. He is currently based in Los Angeles but his home is the southern Blue Ridge Mountains where he was born and raised.
His films can be found here