White Lightnin’

DIR: Domonic Murphy, UK 2009, 92mins, Drama. WITH: Edward Hogg, Carrie Fisher. 18 cert.

Ulster Hall Group
Friday 16th July, 8pm
£3, or £10 for a WeeFT pass

Jaw droppingly bonkers but also kind of great, this is a wildly grotesque fantastical biography of the Appalachian mountain dancer Jesco White.

Some people spend their whole lives running from who they really are; fuelled by moonshine and lighter fuel, Jesco (a wild eyed Edward Hogg) uses tap dancing to keep his demons at bay. White Lightnin’ is a phantasmagoric tumble into the dark corners of artistic genius, addiction, and insanity that is set to an aptly kinky soundtrack. A true original; gory and shocking with a whirlwind energy.