The Legend of Jonny King

2010, 19 minutes

Jonny King is a short, dark comedy which was shot in Ireland, April 2010 with a team from the Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany

Jonny King, an intelligent, young short story writer is having a bad morning. First he's woken up by a flamboyantly dressed detective, then he finds a girl tied up and unconsious in his kitchen. To top it all off his paranoid next-door neighbour thinks he's a spy and wants to kill him. The Legend of Jonny King is a story of escalation. Of how things can always get out of hand given the right concequences. Stuck in the middle of a catastrophic chain of events, Jonny watches on in dismay as his life crumbles down around him in the space of 20 minutes.

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