I BLAME SOCIETY
dir. Gillian Wallace Horvat, 2020
84 mins. United States.
In English.
ONE NIGHT ONLY!
SATURDAY, MARCH 19 – 7 PM w/filmmaker-star Gillian Wallace Horvat and actor Keith Poulson in person for Q+A!
SATURDAY, MARCH 19 – 10 PM w/filmmaker-star Gillian Wallace Horvat and actor Keith Poulson in person for Q+A!
(This event is $10.)
Named one of New York Magazine’s Best Films of 2021, I BLAME SOCIETY is a biting satire, based on a real-life compliment that filmmaker Gillian Wallace Horvat would make a good murderer. In the film, Horvat plays a warped version of herself, a struggling filmmaker in LA, who, inspired by the “murderer” compliment and her own deep-seated resentments, decides to make a documentary about her own transformation into a serial killer. She discovers that she’s a damn good murderer too and starts to blossom in unexpected ways.
“A bitterly dark comedy… One of the Best Films of 2021.” – Alison Willmore, New York Magazine
“A witty, lacerating satire.” – Jessica Kiang, Variety
“[A] biting, often hilarious send-up of the Hollywood machine.” – Kate Erbland, IndieWire
“An inspired, biting black comedy.” – Katie Rife, The A.V. Club
GILLIAN WALLACE HORVAT is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker, writer, and film programmer. Her first short film, GUNPLAY, was a 2007 Wasserman Semi-Finalist and the only film to ever receive a disclaimer for graphic content at NYU Tisch’s First Run Film Festival. KISS KISS FINGERBANG, starring Anton Yelchin, Kate Lyn Sheil, and Buck Henry was awarded the Jury Prize in the Midnight Shorts category at the 2015 South by Southwest Film Festival; it later premiered online as a Vimeo Staff Pick. Miriam Bale wrote in Indiewire that. Gillian is one of “the most exciting American indie filmmakers I can think of.” Her films have screened in festivals around the world including SXSW, Fantasia, Palm Springs International Short Film Festival, Maryland Film Festival, Yale University, and many others. Gillian also produced A FULLER LIFE, a documentary on the life and films of director Samuel Fuller that premiered at the 2013 Venice Film Festival. Recently she has produced documentary shorts for Arrow Films, Kino Lorber, and Olive Films, working on projects ranging from an AMERICAN NINJA box set to Orson Welles’ MACBETH. She is also a guest columnist for Filmmaker Magazine and her writing has appeared in Sight & Sound.]
