The Long Way Home

The soundtrack of Johne’s work is a concatenation of the captions that accompanied World Press Photographs published between 2001 and 2015. The texts succinctly describe scenes of tragedy: someone is notified of a relative’s death; news arrives of the 2001 terror attacks in New York. We see a man in his car, driving through a nocturnal city. Haunted by the succession of dispatches he keeps hearing, he makes several abortive attempts to sing a lullaby to himself. Like taking “the long way home,” it is a strategy his doctor has recommended to silence the voices in his head.