Synopsis: Though best known for cinema bizarre, David Lynch is putting his weight behind the online documentary series 'Interview Project', a journey across the United States, filming more than one hundred randomly selected real-life Americans telling their unique stories.

Often, the most surreal thing captured on film … is reality. Case in point, DavidLynch.com (yes, that David Lynch) presents ‘Interview Project,’ a massive online documentary series co-directed by Jason S. and Austin Lynch (the elder Lynch’s son) that paints a hard-line vignette of randomly selected real-life Americans telling their own stories.

The subject matter is unique enough in its own right, and it’s distributed entirely online and for free, but what’s perhaps most relevant is the organic nature and sheer scale of the undertaking. The team spent more than two months snaking across 20,000 miles of the United States, filming 124 interviews, which they then edited down to 121 episodes, each of 3-5 minute duration and featuring its own subject giving his or her take on the world.

That’s somewhere close to ten hours of pure runtime, or to put it another way, it’s actually longer than an entire season of a network television series like ‘Lost’. The Project’s website aired the first episode on June 1, 2009, with a new episode made available every three days since - a pattern that will continue until the inventory is exhausted (roughly one year).

Unlike typical documentary filmmaking – where interview subjects are vetted, scheduled, and even rehearsed – Lynch and company probed organically. They quite literally roamed the countryside for individuals with that ‘certain something’ and asked questions like “What were your dreams as a child?” … “When did you first experience death?” … and “How would you like to be remembered?”

In deciding exactly who to speak with, the filmmakers simply went with the gut impression created by the subjects and surroundings, admittedly swayed somewhat by their own fleeting moods and preferences. In other words, it wasn’t random in the sense of a coin toss. Rather, they talked to whoever they felt like talking to.

So what’s the point? What is the Project trying to prove?

In his intro to the series, David Lynch sums it up best: "What I hope people will get out of Interview Project is the chance to meet these people. It's something that's human, and you can't stay away from it."

As of this publication, ‘Interview Project’ was on its 15th episode, focusing on a woman named Lynn in front of Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Graham, Texas. She’s as good an example as any of the raw, introspective lens offered by the series. She is simultaneously compelling, heartbreakingly real, beautiful and tragic.

In a single word, she describes herself as “broken.”