injured?
2025 | Super 16mm & digital | 5.1/stereo | 13 minNeed help? Crashouts, manifestation influencers and injury lawyers collide in this breakneck ride through the Midwest. 50 years after attorney ads were first legalized in the U.S., their ubiquitous self-portraits (allegedly) invoke a churn-and-burn economy of volume, velocity, fears and veneers.
2026 Prismatic Ground
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“Eislow Johnson’s latest, Injured?, is a paranoid frenzy of injury lawfirm billboards, motor vehicles, and highway crime made in collaboration with some of the best contemporary moving image artists in the Chicago area. It reaffirms my impression from In Place of a Hollow Tree that Johnson is one of the better new sound designers and editors in the American experimental film world.” — Alex Fields, Not Reconciled
“Eislow Johnson’s Injured? is the most ‘action-packed’ and funny of the shorts [at Prismatic Ground]—a rapid-fire montage of a drive on a highway focusing on the litany of billboards for law firms for car accidents. It is ironic in its clear connection between America’s obsession with cars and suing people, but also fashioned as a sort of intense action film, mimicking the volume and ferocity of one of cinema’s great entertainments: the high-speed chase.” — Soham Gadre, The Film Stage
“The American Midwest is also the setting for Eislow Johnson's short film Injured? (2026), which celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of attorney ads being legalized by looking to the future of American grift: manifestation influencers, numerology divinationists, and proprietors of the Marvel cinematic universe. The shorts in this year's [Prismatic Ground] constitute some of the most powerful moments of its lineup...” — Kathleen Langjahr, Screen Slate