He and his team incorporated treadmills, industrial fans, and slamming car doors, along with a more traditional orchestral ensemble,[2] and he received the IFMCA Breakthrough Composer award for his genre-bending work on the film.
Club noted, it "finds Maslany trapped in the numbing routines of a modern relationship with a partner (Noah Segan) oblivious to her empty feeling.
Soon, we’re cutting to a mysterious facility where Maslany holds sway over obedient followers—but, oddly, these rituals soon start to look just as hollow and meaningless as the ones she’s stuck with at home.
"[9] In 2016, Johnson worked with Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig of the popular indie pop band Lucius to direct their music video for "Gone Insane".
The video received notable mainstream recognition, with Rolling Stone describing the effects as "strange [and] striking" and the Village Voice calling them "exceptional".
[11][12] For the release of Son Lux's Brighter Wounds album, Johnson re-teamed with Tatiana Maslany and Tom Cullen to direct a 10 minute short film that uses the ancient story of Abraham and Isaac as an unsettling exploration into dogma and doubt.
Johnson is the founder of The Cinematic Underground, an art-pop collective that combines storytelling and graphic novel-style artwork with live performance.
The group has put on multiple events in various locations throughout Los Angeles featuring large orchestral ensembles mixed with electronic music.
[14] The group features founding composers Rob Simonsen, Joseph Trapanese, Jeremy Zuckerman, Benjamin Wynn, Eskmo, and Judson Crane, as well as sound engineer Satoshi Noguchi and visual artist Effixx.