The gates of the ‘7eventh 7irkle’ were opened at the TCL Chinese Theatre by visionary director Ty Brueilly on his 45th birthday

We’ve come to anticipate our conversations with Asheboro, N.C. native, Ty Brueilly, in the TCL Chinese Theatre lobby each time he touches down in Hollywood. Hints of his southern draw ring out during the conversation, but somehow fits right in to the L.A. social life without distraction.

“I’m just really happy to be back, I never know until close to last minute if I can actually represent my work out here  or not. When we spoke in February, I had not even started with the editing of 7eventh 7irkle. I mean, damn I hadn’t even finished filming it. But I did know I wanted to spend my birthday back here with the Elfman’s and the Cannibal Comedian team and celebrate that with something brand new if possible. Most of ‘7eventh 7irkle’ was already shot, but I had this final idea digging into my soul that I really needed to cultivate before I could be satisfied with wrapping it all up. So I did that with a casting call and shot it at the historic Sunset Theatre in my hometown in May. It was the finishing touch that the film desperately needed.”

In ‘7eventh 7irkle’, Brueilly derives his inspirational pull from the classic literature of Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’ in particular the Inferno segment, and what audiences get is this intense and incredibly visual and visceral at times suffocating dive into both Brueilly’s mind and somehow, we are safe to say, a conduit to Dante’s mind in our modern world.

“Canto XIII has had it’s fangs in me for well over a decade, so in order for me to film my vision, I had to learn more about that piece of Dante’s story, I had to learn more about filming and I had to make sure my cast and crew trusted me with their time, their craft and their talents. It was all a delicate balance that hindsight shows me was right in the nick of time, editing was finished one week ago today and if I would have done it any sooner or any later it wouldn’t have been as powerful as I feel it is.”

Powerful could be an understatement, as we watched from auditorium 3 in the legendary Chinese Theatre cinema, ‘7eventh 7irkle’ was 16 full minutes of Lynchian fueled elegance. The feeling was like that of seeing how long you can hold your breath under water, and what Brueilly really has improved on, is his ability to score these macabre and unusual scenes.

“The dance scene with Josie, Abi and Saphira, that music I ended up going through four different times. I finally came to the version I used, staying up until 2am last week. I felt it needed more of a delicate and less eerie sound to it and once I tackled that, the motivation level was so high, I finished editing the entire 16 minute film within a few days. 7 years of on and off filming the 7 days of editing, very fitting.”