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In his inventive comic drama Shooting Lily, writer/director Arthur Borman
has created a 905 version of Jim McBride's key underground film of the late
60's, David Holzman's Diary.
Aspiring filmmaker David Hitchcock has it all - his loving wife Lily, a beautiful home, a job he loves, and a Hi-8 video camera to capture it all. David is obsessed with videotaping . Even when Lily unexpectedly announces that she's leaving him, David films the moment, unable to believe that she's serious. "If you want to know what the problem is, go back to your videotapes and figure it out," Lily says, and then she's gone. Devastated, David takes her advice and combs throughout his collection - American's most neurotic home videos. Through this footage we come to know him and Lily, voyeuristically observing their relationship. Borman has a great sense of comic timing, both in his writing and in his directing, and yet still manages to imbue David's plight with pathos. Shooting Lily is a stingingly funny examination of love in the video age.
1996, 35mm, Color, 82 minutes |
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