experimental digital cinema

Still from Joseph Lally's 'The Murder Of Jean Seberg" starring Daphne Guiness

I saw Joe Lally's first film, "The Black And White Maze Of The Painted Zebra" a year ago, on a hot New York summer's day. I remember walking out of that preview screening into a blindingly bright day with a strange feeling of having had my consciousness completely atomized. Viewing a Joe Lally work is precisely the unsettling experience of being plunged headfirst into one man's explosive mindscape. Images collide with ideas which ricochet with sheer propulsive energy against your pre-conceptions to create a whole new way of making, viewing and thinking about cinema. That is the sign not only of important cinema, but more essentially of a great artwork of its time. Over the course of this year, my encounters with Joe has continued to provoke, inspire and challenge me in ways that make me very grateful for our on-going dialogue. On the heels of his massive breakthrough release of " The Murder Of Jean Seberg" at SHOWstudio, I had a brief chat with Joe around some of the questions this ground-breaking film provoked.

Starring Daphne Guinness and Michael Brager,"The Murder Of Jean Seberg"

Mr Lally: Experimental film maker inspired by Jean Luc Godard and John Cassavetes.

Ultra-Masculinity torqued by homo-eroticism skewed with ultra-violence twisted by a of hallucinatory filmic style

Experimental cinema... aesthetic rebellion...Non-narrative forms...there was a golden age for all that,

Still from Joseph Lally's forthcoming "Manhood"

I spent a good part of yesterday afternoon viewing Joe Lally's first film "The Black And White Maze Of The Painted Zebra"