Joshua Ashish Dawson
Joshua Ashish Dawson is a film director & designer based in Los Angeles, California.
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Joshua Ashish Dawson is a film director & designer based in Los Angeles, California.
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Dawson received a Master's in Advanced Architectural Studies from the University of Southern California. He was trained under Balkrishna Doshi (Pritzker Prize-winning architect) and Hollywood production designer Alex McDowell. Joshua focuses on the potential impact of ecological devastation in the physical world. In 2016, his Master’s thesis project, Cáustico, was a 4-minute short film that used matte paintings and archival news footage to explore the issue of water privatization. It screened at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra as a finalist in the AnthropoScene short film competition. In 2019 "Loa's Promise" his directorial debut, at the Cinequest Film Festival won the Jury prize for best Horror, Thriller, Sci-fi Short film. In 2020, he released "Denervation", a short film based on the perils of pharmaceutical counterfeiting. In 2022 he released a 3-minute film titled "Spa Sybarite" which takes the form of a fictional ad about a "wellness spa in which users are offered treatments in response to the planet’s degrading environmental conditions."
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- 1.Joshua Dawson WbML USC School of Cinematic Arts. worldbuilding.usc.edu.
- 2.Diamond, Robert. From the Deserts of Chile to the Cinemas of Silicon Valley: Loas Promise Earns Best Horror, Thriller, Sci-Fi Honor at Cinequest Film & Creativity Festival. BroadwayWorld.com.
- 3.Wallis, Stephen. Cautionary Climate Tales That Give People Pause When They Press Play. The New York Times. 2023-03-09. 0362-4331.
- 4.The War Over Water: This Dystopian City Design Was Inspired by Current Trends in Resource Extraction. ArchDaily. 2016-09-01.
- 5.Anthroposcene - Short Film Competition. www.aila.org.au.
- 6.Loa's Promise. Vice. 2018-05-14.
- 7.Artdaily. Cautionary climate tales that give people pause when they press play. artdaily.cc.
- 8.Knight, Jason. Denervation short animated film review. UK Film Review. 2021-01-24.
- 9.Food, Denervation Film Threat-. Denervation Film Threat. 2021-06-19.
- 10.NNN / Enter Spa Sybarite: the luxury wellness center of our dreams and nightmares. Next Nature Network.
- 11.A futuristic spa hosts Joshua A. Dawson's latest cautionary tale on climate change. Archinect.
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