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Tony Kaye: American History
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Tony Kaye, best known for “American History X,” has been working on “Lake of Fire” for the past fifteen years and has made a film that is unquestionably the definitive work on the subject of abortion. Shot in luminous black and white, which is in fact an endless palette of grays, the film has the perfect esthetic for a subject where there can be no absolutes, no ‘right’ or ‘wrong.’ He gives equal time to both sides, covering arguments from either extremes of the spectrum, as well as those at the center, who acknowledge that, in the end, everyone is ‘right’ - or ‘wrong.’
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Tony has created groundbreaking spots in a wide range of genres, from his comedy and humor work for Guinness and Comedy Central to his riveting series of “Lenny” anti-heroin PSAs to his visually daring work for Dunlop, Volvo and Volkswagen. More recently for the Partnership for a Drug Free America he has created controversy and confrontation with a series of ads equating drug use and terrorism. His “Junkyard Dog” spot for the American Legacy Foundation’s ‘truth’ anti-tobacco campaign created an uncomfortable sense of revulsion over the effects of chewing tobacco.
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Kaye was already several years into making the epic abortion documentary Lake Of Fire. Financed with his own money and shot in 35mm black and white, the 152-minute film couldn't be less commercial, but Kaye's labor of love was rapturously received at the Toronto Film Festival a year ago, and it may be the most even-handed and prismatic treatment of the subject on film to date. Kaye recently spoke to The A.V. Club about the struggle to produce Lake Of Fire, the polarizing nature of the abortion issue, and his misgivings over the American History X debacle.
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Kaye, who directed "American History X", spent 15 years making this "Lake of Fire" which critics have said "stands unquestionably as the definitive work on the ever-dividing issue of abortion. 'Lake of Fire' probes into the complexities of abortion providing both sides of the issue with historical and moral credibility. It is measured, intelligent and suitably objective, regardless of one's own position."
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Kaye (who ... directed American History X) toiled on Lake of Fire for 15 years, and he projects the resolute tenacity of someone who's been in the trenches. There's a sharp intelligence at work here, a need to get beyond the pro-choice versus pro-life rhetoric and explore abortion itself, and to understand how this issue is used as a catalyst to further specific political and religious agendas.
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