97 mins, 2013
EXCERPT SCREENED AT LONDON SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 2014, ICA
SPECIAL FEATURES:
"Never has the phrase "caught on camera" been so literal... A film by Garry Sykes called LXHXN, and brilliantly subtitled "A War Movie", is made entirely of footage of Lindsay Lohan found on YouTube. There are home movies, movies, live appearances, talk show interviews, infrared surveillance, news stories and court tapes. And there's only one conclusion to be drawn from watching it: however much she colluded, Lohan's live has been a persecution"
LXHXN is a found footage biopic, constructed from over 50 hours of material ripped from YouTube, telling the story of a former Disney princess who dared to grow up.
"LXHXN is a kind of horror film, and as in a horror film, it feels as if we can clearly see each looming threat enter the frame long before the protagonist does... Almost a decade has passed since this report from the edge of Lohan's sanity and the nadir of tabloid culture was assembled - it it tempting to say that if LXHXN is a horror film, its star has since proven herself to be a Final Girl."
- PHILIPPA SNOW,
EXCERPT FROM THE WRITTEN INTRO TO A SCREENING AT 'IN-TER-PLAY' (MACK BOOKS/SPBH EDITIONS/REFERENCE POINT, 2024)
