Don Swaynos is an Austin-based filmmaker who has directed short films, music videos and feature-length documentaries. He's also a freelance editor and a member of the Jollyville Pictures filmmaking collective.
He has directed one feature film, the absurdist comedy Pictures of Superheroes.
Read more about this filmmaker on his official site.
Pictures of Superheroes (2012)
Six Hundred And Forty-One Slates (2012)
The American Widow Project (2008) (co-directed with Taryn Davis)
Year at Danger (2007) (co-directed with Steve Metze)
In Defense of Definitions… (2006)
A professional cleaning woman gets dumped by her boyfriend, gets hired by a neurotic businessman and befriends a childlike aspiring comic book creator in this absurdist comedy.
Don Swaynos’s howlingly funny surrealist comedy Pictures of Superheroes is now available to rent and buy on VOD. You can stream the film on Amazon, as well as other streaming services.
The 2nd annual South Texas Underground Film Festival, running Oct. 3-6 in Corpus Christi, Texas, is a massive celebration of international alternative cinema, including films such as Don Swaynos’ Picture of Superheroes and Daniel Fawcett and Clara Pais’ Savage Witches.
The 7th annual Sydney Underground Film Festival opens with Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Dance of Reality, and will screen Don Swaynos’s Pictures of Superheroes, Drew Tobias’s See You Next Tuesday and loads more cinematic oddities.
The 16th annual Revelation Perth International Film Festival is screening Don Swaynos’ awesome Pictures of Superheroes, plus films by Zach Clark and Richard Wolstencroft;
Don Swaynos’ debut feature film, the surrealist Pictures of Superheroes, is a real gem of a comedy that forms a perfect little surreal universe that never betrays its own self-contained operating system.
The 11th annual Lausanne Underground Film Festival will honor special guest John Waters and screen films by Brian Lonano, Don Swaynos, Pierre-Luc Vaillancourt and more.
The fourth annual Oakland Underground Film Festival is screening Frédérick Maheux’s documentary Art/Crime; short films by Don Swaynos, Brian Lonano, Bob Ray and more.
Have you ever seen those big white dots that obscure the image in some old underground movies? Ever wonder what they are? Find out here!
Don Swaynos’ Six Hundred and Forty-One Slates is one of those genius short films that makes one wonder why nobody had ever thought to make it before.
