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Daphne Guinness and Joe Lally Film Launched - The Murder Of Jean Seberg

Inspired by the controversial and shocking death of the all-American actor Jean Seberg in 1979, Daphne Guinness collaborates with filmmaker and photographer Joe Lally to create The Murder of Jean Seberg, an atmospheric art film exploring Seberg's cinematic legacy and haunting beauty.

Inspired by the tragic story of her life and death, this hour-long film explores Seberg's emotion, beauty and the darkness behind living the American Dream

Created in part to explore the concept of making an art film specifically for the Internet, the film is shown exclusively on SHOWstudio.com. Guinness stars as Seberg herself alongside Michael Brager, while Lally directs and edits this expressive film that twists the traditional biopic into a unique art piece.

Coinciding with the film's debut on SHOWstudio.com, interviews with Guinness and Lally are presented to capture the thought process behind this unique collaboration.

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15 comments

  • FrauHandke
    16:38 24 Jun 2011
    This is very beautiful and thought provoking. I cannot watch the entire film now because I am at work but I saw the first 15 minutes and I cannot wait to watch the entire movie when I get home. It is so different!
  • CarrieScott
    16:40 24 Jun 2011
    Disorientingly beautiful and as a result more compelling than the more literal documentary "From the Journals of Jean Seberg."
  • Sishoy
    17:15 24 Jun 2011
    Breathtaking! Very beautiful!x
  • la
    18:03 24 Jun 2011
    Wow that takes some watching, but it does make you think. It does feel like a proposal of a new filmic direction.
    Is this the New Cinema?
    I am intrigued about what Mr Lally means by "narrative is dead" and "film should not give satisfaction."
    Could you explain Mr Lally?
  • JosephLallyPop
    18:31 24 Jun 2011
    Narrative is dead, because we are becoming cynical about the structure that once held Society. The cracks are apparent and we have lost the thread of our own story. Cinema and the Arts are reflecting this crisis in that corporate mentality is in control of what we see and we we perceive as successful. The numbers are failing. How can we have ten pictures nominated for an Oscar when we are lucky if we have 2 good movies a year? Pop music has become a desperate market in which the performer is on a constant treadmill to produce hit after hit, tour after tour. The art world is a shambles in which a Movie Actor can now be considered a Serious Artist and gossip has replaced real news.
  • saint
    00:05 25 Jun 2011
    A brave film.
    In these times of formulaic film making , market research and corporate medaling, this is an attempt to have a different voice.
    Even the editing feels new.
    Refreshing to see someone sticking their neck out.
    Bet this won't go onto Youtube.
  • amy.ireland
    10:49 25 Jun 2011
    Quite difficult to watch at first, but then utterly mesmerising and so beautiful! I love the pace, and it's great to watch a film that I struggle to compare to anything else I've seen.
  • someonegreat
    15:19 25 Jun 2011
    A very neat update on the visuals of Godard but with a new spirit.
  • MsLizzie
    21:50 26 Jun 2011
    I'm fascinated by the Film, and the interviews with Lally and Guinness. If we could attempt to visualise an extrasensory perception - could this be it?
  • la
    22:59 26 Jun 2011
    Thank you for your response. That you are engaging in debate about your work speaks volumes about you and your desire to communicate.
    However your response is a very nihilistic and pessimistic view of our world.
    I too work in the arts , but I don't see it how you describe it.
    Of course i can see the side you describe, but it is only one side.
    Gossip has only replaced real news for a certain sort of person , who probably would never been interested in any other than the salacious.
    I always get worried about the idea that things were better before, I just think life is there for each and everyone of us to shape how we chose.
    My life has not been led before and I will not let the past shape my future.
    You propose a new vision for cinema and I respect you for that , but what you say in your response to my question is far less of a positive vision than that of your film.
  • JOSEPHLALLY
    23:55 26 Jun 2011
    What I wrote was a truth but not ultimate, for what you write is more profound and more beautiful. I have gone to the edge of the void and now I must turn around. thank you for your passion. DO NOT LOSE IT. JL
  • Brights
    10:47 30 Jun 2011
    There are some very beautiful turns in this — mesmerising...
    In the post, SHOWstudio you say "created in part to explore the concept of making an art film specifically for the Internet".
    I was trying to discover how this was the case in this film... and wondering what Mr Lally did in his process that engaged with viewers as internauts?
    Films online are so short, but this is quite long for a film on the internet.
    What choices did you make that were led by the platform it'd be published to?
  • JOSEPHLALLY
    11:09 30 Jun 2011
    I took a chance in doing a long film, even though the InterNet has created a sort
    of ADD attention span. I knew i may get less people to view in its entirety but I felt it would have more of a lingering impression if a viewer followed it to its conclusion. The brain needs a certain amount of time in order to create a narrative (even if nonlinear).
    Often very short films on the Net become eye candy and as good and great as they can be, they become disposable because there are so many and the brain can easily dismiss things of shorter duration. This of course is my theory but I believe the brain needs at least 12 minutes to create a narrative construct, like a brief dream versus a long dream you may have. Of course the content, no matter what the duration, and the visual-audio allure are vital. But test it out yourselves. Are we losing something in this new age of speed?
  • Brights
    13:54 30 Jun 2011
    “The brain needs a certain amount of time in order to create a narrative (even if nonlinear).“
    Thank you so much for responding; I completely agree about the risk of the disposable feel of online art and content. But watching the film through it definitely draws one into it.
    I agree we've lost undivided attention — one can leave the 'theatre' without getting up, just tapping one's finger. And that non-linearity of using the internet I think affects us personally in how we consume story today.
    Perhaps if the moving image online can achieve an alluring sense of space and time by exploring the new technologies it provides... the loss will be a gain?
  • RR3CZ4
    15:59 7 Jul 2011
    Come on! This is just completely ridiculous and self indulgent.Nothing brave about it! what risk? "narrative is dead"...sounds like an 80's mantra.
    the film looks like an elegent fashion shoot, with many artsy fartsy effects (sometimes quite beautifull), but really...it is just about Mr guiness striking a pose next to half naked models....and you call that "collaboration"? Look in a dictionnary...