Mar 22, 2022 · As a film student in 2011, Ari Aster created The Strange Thing About The Johnsons. The dark short follows a family in which the son, Isaiah, sexually abuses his own father, Sidney. The Strange Thing About The Johnsons is twisted and shocking in the same way as the deaths in Midsommar are.

Aster worked on the film with fellow AFI students. He first conceived the story while discussing taboos with his friends, including the film's star Brandon Greenhouse, before starting his first year at AFI.

Feb 26, 2021 · A collection of short films by director Ari Aster. These are pulled from YouTube and Vimeo and posted here for educational purposes only.

Jan 15, 2025 · What follows is a brief overview of Ari Asters filmography from his latest feature, Beau is Afraid, to his earliest short film from 2008. You’ll see themes of disturbing family dynamics, paranoia, and a healthy dose of eye-rolling comedy. Joaquin Phoenix as Beau.

Jan 23, 2022 · While studying as a graduate student at AFI, Aster made several shorts with his friends – punctuated by his thesis film The Strange Thing About the Johnsons. The Strange Thing About the Johnsons follows the story of an incestuous relationship between a father and son.

Feb 4, 2025 · Midsommar is a 2019 horror film written and directed by American filmmaker Ari Aster that follows the disastrous fate of a group of unsuspecting Americans who visit a rural Scandinavian cult to participate in its mysterious Midsummer festival. ... Pugh was praised for her performance as a grieving psychology student in the throes of a toxic ...

Ari Aster wrote a script for a contemporary Western film that he had at one point considered making as his directorial debut. He tried to make it for about five years before deciding to make Hereditary and Midsommar first. [2] While promoting his third film, Beau Is Afraid, Aster indicated that his next film would likely be a Western and that he had updated it …

Jun 4, 2023 · Decades from now, film scholars will likely mention Ari Aster as one of the defining and most influential directors of our age, whose work not only swirls around genre conventions but re-defined arthouse cinema altogether.

His first listed directing credit is the 12-minute student film, Herman’s Cure-All Tonic (2008). In 2010 he earned an M.F.A. degree. His thesis film was a disturbing short film entitled The Strange Thing About the Johnsons (2011), about a son who sexually abuses his father.

Jun 1, 2020 · This past Wednesday, UC Santa Barbara’s cinephiles rejoiced as the Associated Students Program Board interviewed “Hereditary” and “Midsommar” writer/director Ari Aster, whose groundbreaking films have introduced a new wave of horror.