I Blame Society
Now Available on BluRay
“We gave you all these ideas and you go off and make weird Frances Ha...” the famous last words of a producer who doubts the awesome power of writer/director/star Gillian Wallace Horvat.
After a few idiosyncratic short films Horvat gave the world a concentrated dose of her meta-madness in I Blame Society, a film that destroys itself and its benefactors as it goes on. Horvat plays a funhouse version of herself, a terminally plugged-in creator looking to finally make the leap to the big time. With an atta boy from clueless moneymen, Gillian starts documenting her process of squaring up accounts with ex-boyfriends, old enemies, and innocent bystanders alike.
“Authentic in more ways than one,” as Gillian herself says, I Blame Society is among the most pointed and dryly hysterical looks at the world of branding, buzzwords, and social media’s indemnification against serial selfishness. A true original, shot guerrilla style and with a cast and crew of friends, I Blame Society is a messy open casket funeral for the independent American cinema of the 2000s.
I Blame Society
United States • 2020
Directed by: Gillian Wallace Horvat
Written by: Gillian Wallace Horvat, Chase Williamson
Starring: Gillian Wallace Horvat, Chase Williamson, Macon Blair, Keith Poulson, Jennifer Kim
Run time: 84 minutes
Language: English
Color: Color
Format: 1.85:1
Sound: 5.1