In a feat of self-explanatory titling, David Lynch has just launched Interview Project. It is, as the filmmaker states in his video intro, "a road trip where people have been found and interviewed." Taking in 20,000 miles across the US, a new film will be up online every three days...
Despite Lynch's hilarious misgivings concerning watching films on the small screen, Interview Project's natural home is clearly the internet.
Viewiers can watch each short film online and also follow the route of the filmmakers as they trek the 20,000 miles from the US west coast to east (and back) in 70 days.
Lynch says that "the people who were interviewed – each... was different" and hopes that the films will offer viewers the chance to "meet these people." So far so vague, but this is partly the attraction of Lynch's project.
From the pseudo-quaint welcoming of the viewer who has "tuned in" to Interview Project, Lynch introduces the first of the films: Jess interviewed in Needles, California.
Jess talks briefly about his life, his regrets and, in the most poignant line of the film, reveals that his ex-wife "liked drugs and other men better than me".
With 121 interviews filmed so far (all billed as Coming Soon on the site) no doubt there will be some more surprises along the way.
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Via Creative Review
Personal comment:
Un projet web intéressant en cours de réalisation par David Lynch: documentaire distillé durant une longue période qui rend compte de sa traversée des Etats-Unis.
Toutes proportions gardées, cela me rappelle un peu ce qui avait été fait avec le site Parisienne dans les années 2000: voyages de membre de la communauté d'alors "sponsorés" par Parisienne contre un contenu publié chaque jour ou presque (photos et textes uniquement à l'époque). Deux voyages avaient été soutenus alors: Zurich to Pakistan (qui s'était arrèté en Iran juste après le 9.11) et un second Lausanne to Los Angeles (Siggraph symposium, pour présenter le projet Networked Parisienne People).