I Blame Society

“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.

directed by: Gillian Wallace Horvat
starring: Gillian Wallace Horvat, Chase Williamson, Keith Poulson, Macon Blair, Jennifer Kim
2020 / 84 min / 1.85:1 / English DTS-HD MA 5.1

Additional info:

• Region A Blu-ray
• Kiss Kiss Fingerbang: Horvat’s 2015 SXSW Jury Award winning short film Starring Anton Yelchin, Kate Lyn Sheil and Buck Henry
• Whiskey Fist (2017) Horvat’s follow-up short film starring Chase Williams and Heather Kafka
• I, Murderer (2016 -2018) Portions of the unfinished short that served as an inspiration for "I Blame Society" and featured within in the film
• Theatrical Trailer
• English SDH subtitles