Lynch

USA, 2007, 84 Minute Running Time
Genre/Subjects: Art, Cult, Documentary, Educational, Experimental
Programs: Films In Competition, Documentary Films
Language: English

DIRECTOR: blackANDwhite
Producer: Slin Almquist (Executive), Rips Penderis, Matt Semi (Executive), Søren Larsen, Brynn McQuade
Cinematographer: Morten Soborg
Principal Cast: David Lynch, Krzysztof Majchrzak, Phillip Patela, Weronika Rosati

This intimate portrait of celebrated American director David Lynch examines the creative instincts that led to such film classics as Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive (not to mention the revolutionary television series Twin Peaks). Crafted from more than two years' worth of footage shot both in its subject's own home and on the set of his 2006 film Inland Empire, Lynch immerses viewers in the fascinating world where this often controversial, always fiercely original artist lives and works.

Sure to be a hit with his fans – and to garner him new ones – this documentary compares the intense professional that is the working David Lynch with the relaxed, mischievous and likeable raconteur he becomes in his downtime. We see him on the set expressing everything from fury with to affection for his actors (including longtime muse Laura Dern). We see him employing complex, even perplexing artistic methods, experimenting in media other than film and practicing Transcendental Meditation (to whose consciousness-raising techniques he is deeply committed). And we see him conducting his personal life in ways that prove him to be a man of infectious humor and boundless enthusiasm – no less, indeed perhaps more, beloved for the eccentricities he makes plain for all to see.

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