I can literally pin-point my inspiration to become a filmmaker to a single moment in the Twin Peaks pilot episode, when Lynch ,seemingly randomly, cuts to a close up of Audrey's saddle shoes as she gets in the car driving her to school. The viewer's brain goes, 'huh?' That was weird. The payoff of course comes in the next scene when she switches to red high heels once at school. It was an epiphany of how what we point the camera at gives it meaning, and in the hands of great directors, multiple layers of meaning. A sad day, but, like you say, a reminder to appreciate a great artist.
Beautiful. I also recommend getting to know Lynch the musician. "Crazy Clown Time" is your ticket to the start of a strange trip, which does to pop music what "Twin Peaks" did to TV drama – not in its cultural impact, surely, but in how it lures you in with a bunch of familiar elements and leaves you lost in a dream where you're not quite sure if the nightmare started already.
Nothing has made me feel more intensely and wondrously than Twin Peaks. Lynch was the greatest, and his work (including his paintings) has meant the world to me. A while back I co-edited an online volume of essays on season three if anyone is interested: https://nanocrit.com/index.php/issues/issue15
His work haunts me in a good way. He was born with quite a bandwidth to play with and he exceeded any ordinary person's limits to create his version of weird and strange. He was definitely more than the sum of his human parts and he'll be missed.
I can literally pin-point my inspiration to become a filmmaker to a single moment in the Twin Peaks pilot episode, when Lynch ,seemingly randomly, cuts to a close up of Audrey's saddle shoes as she gets in the car driving her to school. The viewer's brain goes, 'huh?' That was weird. The payoff of course comes in the next scene when she switches to red high heels once at school. It was an epiphany of how what we point the camera at gives it meaning, and in the hands of great directors, multiple layers of meaning. A sad day, but, like you say, a reminder to appreciate a great artist.
Beautiful. I also recommend getting to know Lynch the musician. "Crazy Clown Time" is your ticket to the start of a strange trip, which does to pop music what "Twin Peaks" did to TV drama – not in its cultural impact, surely, but in how it lures you in with a bunch of familiar elements and leaves you lost in a dream where you're not quite sure if the nightmare started already.
My dog barks some.
Nothing has made me feel more intensely and wondrously than Twin Peaks. Lynch was the greatest, and his work (including his paintings) has meant the world to me. A while back I co-edited an online volume of essays on season three if anyone is interested: https://nanocrit.com/index.php/issues/issue15
Fell in love with David Lynch when I saw Eraserhead as a young girl!
Thank you.
Well done, Lincoln. Thank you for this piece.
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His work haunts me in a good way. He was born with quite a bandwidth to play with and he exceeded any ordinary person's limits to create his version of weird and strange. He was definitely more than the sum of his human parts and he'll be missed.