A Question of Love or Lust

The Morning After [Feature Length Film] A Question of Love or Lust (2015)

Hello everybody! Before viewing this particular edit of "A Question of Love or Lust," you might find the quality and soundtrack to be more appealing found on my Vimeo Pro site: vimeopro.com/jwharnisch/film/video/126036018. Nonetheless, a beautiful film where love and grief are eternally entwined. Please enjoy an example of schizophrenic art in this new film by former Hollywood/now independent outsider filmmaker Jonathan Harnisch (voilà, that's me) in "A Question of Love or Lust" I competed The Morning After vimeopro.com/jwharnisch/film/video/115438225 in December 2014 while undergoing a dark, deep experience with depression, existential despair and with new tears for old grief. This is a demonstration of the feature length film version. I am glad to see so many people have been appreciating my movies’ inherent beauty, especially this one, which has such a deeply personal meaning. I thank you, all, to God, and to all my fans, friends, and family for playing such a very special role in the short experimental pieces within this short film series of sorts; this being said, perhaps without others knowing how many have inspired my art. The holiday seasons often bring me to a deep sense of nostalgia for good times long gone, from lost film footage in the archives, including a great deal of footage I shot during my days as a student of film and TV production at Tisch School of the Arts at NYU in the mid 1990s and also films kept here at the production office. I believe I have experimented into the depth of a new ground, and renewed visual voice of artistic expression keeping my goal intact, to find and redefine myself, through the arts. A new original soundtrack for these films, originally shot on both Super 8 film stock and Hi-8 video, will be developed and inspired by the final cut of The Morning After, Chance Encounter, and Emptying His Pockets. All 3 films in this series focus on my often-recurring themes of loss, love, and life and may be recreated with a revised original score, or soundtrack, in time. Please leave comments, if you would. The responses for all the working cuts of these generally short pieces have inspired me to bring The Morning After to the independent film festival circuit. It has been years since retiring from Hollywood film and professional TV work. It might, however, be time to see what I can do to reconnect with an audience in the world beyond the Internet, once again, in some way, and if not, I don’t think the Internet is going anywhere anytime soon. Professional financing and marketing, etc., will often cause me a great deal of unwanted stress, which I prefer to do without. I suffer from rare and comorbid mental health diagnoses, namely those within the schizophrenia and autistic spectra. My mental illnesses have blessed me over the years with many creative gifts. So, with immense gratitude, I thank you, my muse, wife, and my family and friends without hesitation. Onward bound, as always.

—Jonathan Harnisch, Harnisch Productions, LLC facebook.com/harnischfilm