Director Jennifer Lynch doesn’t mind cursing in casual conversation, nor does she mince words about how much she missed being behind the camera.
Shooting “Surveillance,” her first feature since 1993’s “Boxing Helena,” was “sheer (expletive) heaven.”
“I am more comfortable on set than I am in my own home,” Lynch tells WWTW. “Everybody’s there to do one thing. I love storytelling.”
And Lynch’s “Surveillance,” out this week on DVD, is one heck of a story.
A pair of FBI agents (Bill Pullman and Julia Ormond) tag team with a rural police station to track down a pair of vicious killers.
Nothing is quite what it seems in Lynch’s latest film, which earned her the Best Director prize at the 2008 New York City Horror Film Festival.
“Surveillance” is told through the eyes of multiple characters, some of whom are taping the interrogations meant to piece together the murders in question. It’s a dizzying blend of perspectives, but not something Lynch set out to create – at least at first.
“I wasn’t consciously doing these things, but I realized it in the process,” says Lynch, daughter of famed director David Lynch. The film explores “how do we see each other, what do we think ’good’ looks like?”
She used four different film stocks to capture the various perspectives, a sort of slasher film meets “Rashomon” mashup.
“Surveillance” shows plenty of on-screen violence, but some of the brutal goings on occur off screen.
“Some things are more powerful not to see. I can never create something as hideous as what each individual is thinking,” she says.
“Violence to me, as it should be, is really (expletive) awful. I wanted some of it to be in-your-face grotesque. I wanted it to matter,” she continues. “I think so often the ‘torture porn’ stuff just rolls over us.”
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