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David Lynch’s Interview Project

David Lynch’s Interview Project

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By Karina Longworth posted 6 months ago
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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 that banality as a smokescreen. And why not? This is, essentially, what he’s done for most of his working life.

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David Lynch Interviews People

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By Karina Longworth posted 6 months ago
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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, asking (scripted, it would appear) questions like “What was my first experience of death?” whilst standing in front of shacks and railroad tracks, while brids chirp and jangly guitar plays on the soundtrack. In other words, stereotypes of Americana, which Lynch has shown interest in before, appear to be well represented, but how will these stereotypes be interrogated? We’ll have to wait until June 1 to find out.