Indiewire has exclusively learned that filmmaker and painter Austin Lynch, son to David, has launched a Kickstarter campaign to finance his latest project "Gray House," a hybrid drama that interweaves both documentary and narrative footage to frame a "conversation about nature, identity, consumerism and progress" (per the release). Lynch is looking for $25,000 to help fund his feature. Lynch worked with his father and filmmaker Jason S. on the Webby Award-winning series "Interview Project," and has also directed a 10-part documentary chronicling the production of Terrence Malick's "The New World," and "Making 'There Will Be Blood,'" a film about the making of Paul Thomas Anderson's Oscar-winning epic. Read More: David Lynch Talks 'Crazy Clown Time' and Why Singing is "So Embarrassing" In "Gray House," Lynch investigates five politically and socially charged locations where he either conducts a series of interviews with the local residents or stages scripted scenes in the.
- 8/21/2013
- by Nigel M Smith
- Indiewire
David Lynch released his debut solo album Crazy Clown Time in November 2011. This morning, he released the David Lynch-directed, seven-minute music video of the the title track off that album. (It must be a good day to release moving pictures set to music on YouTube channels that are part of the online video sharing site’s $100 million Originals initiative.) The video premiered on YouTube under the banner of Noisey, Vice Magazine’s “video-driven music discovery platform, which has been the launching pad to other notable music videos and does its best to document “the most talented emerging musicians…bands and music scenes” from around the world. The action follows the narrative in Lynch’s lyrics (which he sings in an airy alto bordering on being a bad impression of Miss Piggy, not that there’s anything wrong with that), which basically depicts the aftermath of a party at the...
- 4/3/2012
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
Kirby Ferguson recently wrapped up his four-part 40-some-odd-minute online video series inspired by a Jim Jarmusch poster-sized filmmaking manifesto, Everything is a Remix. It’s part historical documentary, part research project, and a wholly fascinating “examination of how our world is the way it is because of an innate cut-and-past culture.” From inspecting the music and lyrics of Led Zeppelin to looking at cellular biology, Ferguson argues incredibly succinctly and successfully how stealing/borrowing/remixing isn’t just “how a handful of things come to fruition, it’s how everything gets made.” You should watch the series. And then you should donate to Ferguson’s latest Kickstarter campaign to ensure he makes some more. This is Not a Conspiracy Theory is the Canadian auteur’s latest passion project. He’s hoping, with your support, it will become a multi-part program “that will explain the major ideas, events and human quirks...
- 2/17/2012
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
David Lynch should be considered a national treasure to American cinema by now and if you don’t agree I don’t care. In addition to pushing the boundaries of cinema with some of the most inventive and surreal films ever committed to celluloid, Lynch has also been a pioneer in embracing social media (albeit being a slight technophobe) with his abstract tweets and most recently his compelling Interview Project.
Well now Lynch is diving headfirst into the unchartered waters of crowd-sourcing and fan-funding akin to what Trent Reznor attempted to do with Nine Inch Nails and the digital release of the album Ghosts. For fifty smackers, you can be part of Lynch’s project (tentatively titled Lynch three Project) which is said to be a personal examination of his last major theatrical effort Inland Empire along with chronicling some personal habits of the artist.
“As truly independent filmmakers, we...
Well now Lynch is diving headfirst into the unchartered waters of crowd-sourcing and fan-funding akin to what Trent Reznor attempted to do with Nine Inch Nails and the digital release of the album Ghosts. For fifty smackers, you can be part of Lynch’s project (tentatively titled Lynch three Project) which is said to be a personal examination of his last major theatrical effort Inland Empire along with chronicling some personal habits of the artist.
“As truly independent filmmakers, we...
- 7/13/2010
- by Raffi Asdourian
- The Film Stage
On April 8, 1990, David Lynch managed to infiltrate the living rooms of innocent TV viewers with Twin Peaks. Even though it was only on for two seasons, the show earned an obsessively dedicated audience and critical acclaim for its story about a murdered homecoming queen and the surreal, seedy underbelly of an otherwise normal-looking town.
Since then, Lynch has continued to create unforgettable, and occasionally unfathomable, twisty turny movies for our enjoyment, as well as coffee, daily weather reports on his website, a self-help book on transcendental meditation and creativity, and a production company, Absurda, which is behind the fascinating Interview Project.
We never know what's up Lynch's sleeve, but according to NBC Miami, Mulholland Drive costar Laura Harring says there's a sequel in the works. As is appropriate for a Lynch leading lady, her statements are oblique and bizarre. "I'm very sure it's coming, it's being born... I cannot really tell you how I know.
Since then, Lynch has continued to create unforgettable, and occasionally unfathomable, twisty turny movies for our enjoyment, as well as coffee, daily weather reports on his website, a self-help book on transcendental meditation and creativity, and a production company, Absurda, which is behind the fascinating Interview Project.
We never know what's up Lynch's sleeve, but according to NBC Miami, Mulholland Drive costar Laura Harring says there's a sequel in the works. As is appropriate for a Lynch leading lady, her statements are oblique and bizarre. "I'm very sure it's coming, it's being born... I cannot really tell you how I know.
- 4/10/2010
- by Jenni Miller
- Cinematical
Filmmaker David Lynch has just completed his 99th chat with random U.S. characters for his ongoing online Interview Project.
The Blue Velvet director posted his first interview with Vietnam veteran Jess in Needles, California in June; his latest entry was made on Monday - a conversation with firearms enthusiast Richard in Nebraska.
Lynch has embarked on capturing brief life stories from random Americans on camera and posting them on his website.
The Blue Velvet director posted his first interview with Vietnam veteran Jess in Needles, California in June; his latest entry was made on Monday - a conversation with firearms enthusiast Richard in Nebraska.
Lynch has embarked on capturing brief life stories from random Americans on camera and posting them on his website.
- 3/23/2010
- WENN
"Known as the last great race on the earth, the Iditarod is an 1150-mile sled dog race across the most dangerous and extreme terrain of Alaska. Fifty-eight year old Kathy Frederick is one of the oldest female rookie competitors to ever compete in this treacherous race and I, Leslie Morgan will be documenting her journey." This is, in a nutshell, the premise for the unique documentary web series 1150 Project created by the one-woman producing dynamo Leslie Morgan. The series is literally unfolding right now, as Leslie follows Kathy currently racing in this year's Iditarod. Tubefilter talked via e-mail (as she is currently still in Alaska working on the series) with this inspiring creator to get the inside scoop on this truly once-in-a-lifetime experience. Tubefilter: What was the inspiration behind this project? How did you and Kathy meet? I have been interested in finding a documentary project about someone living out a dream,...
- 3/10/2010
- by Jenni Powell
- Tubefilter.com
This week saw the launch of Hulu's first original web series, If I Can Dream, backed by reality TV's worldwide top dog, American Idol creator Simon Fuller. His first foray into the web goes way beyond Hulu though, as the series blends several reality formats into a 24/7 experiential internet show combining dozens of live camera feeds, edited episodes and even a public auditioning platform on MySpace. The show follows five young and aspiring talents trying to make it in Hollywood, which on its own isn't anything novel. Three of them are actors, one a musician and another a model, all starting somewhere near the lower ranks of Hollywood's slippery talent ladder. So why is this is big deal for web TV? Reality's Cost Paradox Reality shows swept across television starting in force back in 1999 with the success of the voyeuristic Big Brother and followed soon after by Survivor, The Amazing Race...
- 3/3/2010
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
I've really been enjoying the David Lynch produced Interview Project for some time now. While director Austin Lynch (his son) and pal Jason S. seem to share the same eagle eye for the mundane and affection for people and their stories, watching the videos makes me yearn for the next Papa Lynch movie. A group of lovable YouTube monkeys shares my sentiment and have assembled some strange and amusing David Lynch versions of popular films.
Slow-mo and dreamy sounds make Return of the Jedi trailer spot on. It also helps knowing that Lynch almost directed the film. Tommy Jarvis' flashbacks and hallucinations set against Douglas-firs and a halfway house are perfect for a Friday the 13th: A New Beginning re-cut. A Goofy Movie's edits are pretty clever and a screaming baby is a lot less strange than a rambling Steve Guttenberg in the Three Men and a Baby trailer.
Slow-mo and dreamy sounds make Return of the Jedi trailer spot on. It also helps knowing that Lynch almost directed the film. Tommy Jarvis' flashbacks and hallucinations set against Douglas-firs and a halfway house are perfect for a Friday the 13th: A New Beginning re-cut. A Goofy Movie's edits are pretty clever and a screaming baby is a lot less strange than a rambling Steve Guttenberg in the Three Men and a Baby trailer.
- 2/26/2010
- by Alison Nastasi
- Cinematical
Years ago, the Internet was an accessible haven for meeting people across the world -- for learning about new cultures and expanding horizons without leaving your desk. With the commercialization of this space over the years, however, that push has been forgotten. But the new project from David Lynch's son Austin and a friend named Jason S. is changing that, just a little.
If you've heard about the Interview Project already but haven't gone, I implore you to head over right now and check it out. The pair traveled across the U.S. for 70 days, interviewing random people they came across, young and old, both men and women. The collection of footage was then edited, and gets released every few days over at davidlynch.com. Lynch's vision definitely runs in the family. It doesn't hold the eeriness associated with much of the director's work, but it has the same...
If you've heard about the Interview Project already but haven't gone, I implore you to head over right now and check it out. The pair traveled across the U.S. for 70 days, interviewing random people they came across, young and old, both men and women. The collection of footage was then edited, and gets released every few days over at davidlynch.com. Lynch's vision definitely runs in the family. It doesn't hold the eeriness associated with much of the director's work, but it has the same...
- 10/27/2009
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
Did you know CNN has a web series? I didn’t. It’s called Freshman Year and while it might sound like a coming-of-age college romp, it is far from it. Here’s the gist: two Congress n00bs, Jared Polis (D) and Jason Chaffetz (R) carry around Flip cams and chronicle their first terms in the House. Polis is an openly gay man and former Internet entrepreneur elected to represent Colorado’s second district. Chaffetz is a conservative, “former chief-of-staff to Utah’s governor and married father of three who sleeps on a cot in his congressional office to save money,” according to the Freshman Year website. In jest, Richard Galant, Sr. Producer for CNN.com, said “[Chaffetz] doesn’t mind sleeping on a cot in his office —except when the Zamboni-like cleaning machine comes down the hallway in the middle of the night, beeping loudly, or when the sirens...
- 8/20/2009
- by Jacob Nahin
- Tubefilter.com
When the trailer for David Lynch’s new web series Interview Project premiered in early May, I was so skeptical that I mocked the repetitive banality of Lynch’s “drinking game-inspiring intro.” I’ve since had a chance to see five episodes of the series — which premieres publicly on June 1 and through which Lynch and Co. will unveil one short video each day for the rest of the year — and now I think I’ve found the method motivating the mundanity. We’re to take that introduction as its producer’s statement of its thesis, but it also reveals something about its form. Addressing the camera in his rumpled shirt and jacket, firing off a deliberately prosaic monologue in sing-song, with the words “people”, “interview” and “different” pushed so many times as to completely lose meaning, Lynch appears to be using th ...
- 5/28/2009
- by Karina Longworth
- Spout
The House Next Door points to David Lynch's website, and the trailer for Interview Project. The filmmaker apparently traveled across the country and back again interviewing random Americans, and the footage will start appearing in web series format on his site next month. If you can get through Lynch's drinking game-inspiring intro to the trailer (take a shot every time David Lynch says "people", and prepare to be on the floor for several days thereafter), you'll find black-and-white, Dorothea Lange-esque footage of mostly middle aged people (drink), mostly with Southern-ish accents, a ...
- 5/6/2009
- by Karina Longworth
- Spout
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