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White Lightnin’
White Lightnin’
“Jesse can be three people: He is Jesse, he is Jesco, and he is Elvis.” Norma Jean White: Jesco White’s wife (from the film)
Crossing over from advertising to cinema, British director Dominic Murphy takes his camera to the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia to reimagine the life of the ‘dancing outlaw’ Jesco White. The real- life mountain dancer White, who became a larger-than-life postmodern celebrity in the last decade with his unique performances and a past filled with substance abuse and poverty, soon transforms into a fictional deranged rock hero under Murphy’s unapologetic lens. The movie chronicles the life of Jesco, beginning with a ten-year-old kid sniffing lighter fluid and moving in and out of concentration camps disguised as reform schools, and later insane asylums. The only way out for Jesco in a life filled with drug-induced misery becomes the craft of mountain dancing, a blend of tap dancing and local clogging to country banjo music. Inherited from his father, D. Ray, a local celebrity himself, Jesco takes his art to the road. “My life’s been a party... and a joke... and a tragedy,” recalls Jesco, in one of the heated moments of his troubled but passionate relationship with Cilla. Jesco and Cilla become distorted versions of Johnny and June in a world fuelled with alcohol, drugs, a demented fundamentalism, the occasional mountain dancing, and the ghosts of Elvis memorabilia. With his angelic face, Edward Hogg brings out the vulnerability of this brand new Jesco, while in the role of Cilla, Carrie Fisher becomes another warrior in love in a land far far away.
2009 Sundance Film Festival
Berlin Film Festival
Mumbai Film Festival:Best First Feature Film
Edinburgh Film Festival
Cambridge Film Festival
Dinard British Film Festival:Grand Jury Prize
Monterrey Film Festival:Edward Hogg-Best Actor
Fant-Asiya Film Festival: Best First Film:Jury Prize
About the Director
Dominic Murphy
After graduating from film school, Dominic
Murphy started his filmmaking career by winning
the 7Youth Director’s competition. For eight years
he was mainly involved in documentaries, art
programs and short dramas. He also attended
regular workshops by Jack Walter. From 1997,
Murphy focused on commercials and produced
campaigns like ‘Use Your Vote’ and the VW Passat
Obsession campaign. Among the top awards won
for his commercials was the Gold Lions Award
at Cannes both for ‘VW Passat’ and ‘Heinz Two
Minutes’. White Lightnin’ is his first feature film
SCREENINGS
| 12.02.2010 19:30 AFM Budak Caddebostan |
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| 19.02.2010 22:00 AFM İstinyePark |
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| 20.02.2010 17:00 AFM Fitaş Salon 4 |
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OVERVIEW
- Director
- Dominic Murphy ()
- Screenplay
- Eddy Moretti
- Shane Smith
- Cast
- Carrie Fisher
- Edward Hogg
- Muse Watson
- Owen Campbell
- Production Co.
- Vice Films
- Distributor
- The Salt Company
- Cinematography
- Tim Maurice Jones
- Editing
- Sam Sneade
- Producer
- Mike Downey
- Sam Taylor
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