A year in the making, David Lynch’s Interview Project sent the director’s son Austin zigzagging around the country to film revealing Q&As with everyday people selected on the fly.
The project saw Austin and his co-director, Jason S, driving 20,000 miles throughout the US over the course of ten weeks, compiling an expansive look into the lives of so-called “normal” people along the way. David Lynch began posting and introducing the interviews online, beginning with a bearded man on the side of the road in a small Californian town and wrapping up last week with the 121st subject.
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Two twenty-something, upper class, educated, Jewish girls traipse around the United States looking for the feminism of a new generation, and once they find it, one of them kills herself. That’s not exactly what the back cover of Girldrive: Criss-Crossing America, Redefining Feminism reads, but that’s one version of what happened. Best friends since 1997, Nona Willis Aronowitz and Emma Bee Bernstein decided to take a road trip and talk to a cross section of young women about the F-word. They met 127 women — including a sex shop clerk, a Bible college student, a witch, a future nun, a former Air Force worker, a 28-year-old mother of six, and an anarchist — to find out why some woman love feminism with a fierceness and why others don’t relate to it at all.
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