M. Blash

The truth about lying
interview by OLIVIER ZAHM 
portrait by TERRY RICHARDSON 

 

The first feature -length film of M. Blash, Lying, premiered at Cannes in 2006, less than a year from the time the script was concieved: four young women in a house, one a pathological liar named Megan, played by Chloe Sevigny. We asked the filmmaker to talk  about his love for cinema, wilderness, darkness and joy, as about his subtle examination of the boredom, superficiality and anxiety of American girls.

OLIVIER ZAHM — Where did you grow up?And how did it mold your sensibility?
M. BLASH— I grew up in Colorado and Oregon, on the edge of the wilderness. In the 80s and 90s there were rising tensions in these places regarding how they would be gentrified. Even on a subconscious level I imagined romantic neutral zones between the past and future for…