David Lynch: Abstract at Heart
I've been interviewing David Lynch on and off for the last several months for Wired and Morphizm, and the fruits of that labor should be out soon, in a variety of media. Details to come later, if only because they are continuall changing. But nevertheless, Lynch's new film INLAND EMPIRE is screening in New York now from what I hear, and it's weird at heart and crazy in the middle:
It's three hours long, shot entirely in digital film, which Lynch has commandeered as his preferred mode of the future. It has pissed off critics and perplexed them as well, as if they ever mattered when it came to his bizarro cinema of dreams and nightmares. I talk more about that in my old-school Morphizm review of the brilliant, destabilizing Mulholland Drive, but the gist is simple: Lynch's films emerge from his mind unfettered and celebrated. So arguing about what comes out of his mind is pointless. Either you care or you don't, and if you don't, go home or see something else. Here's a cool sequence from the immortal Eraserhead that should tell you what to think on that count:
Finally, the intersection of David Lynch and politics has been an equally weird one. He was a fan of Reagan during the '80s he more or less ruled -- even during the Dune mess -- but now has come out as a 9/11 conspiracy theorist, a horde whose numbers are rightly growing by the day. Hey, don't bitch: America has been riding that gravy train to do everything from invade Iraq to hijack your civil liberties. Suckers.
In any case, stay tuned for more David Lynch goods, as Morphizm should be swimming in them sooner rather than later. Just in time for the clusterfuck.
It's three hours long, shot entirely in digital film, which Lynch has commandeered as his preferred mode of the future. It has pissed off critics and perplexed them as well, as if they ever mattered when it came to his bizarro cinema of dreams and nightmares. I talk more about that in my old-school Morphizm review of the brilliant, destabilizing Mulholland Drive, but the gist is simple: Lynch's films emerge from his mind unfettered and celebrated. So arguing about what comes out of his mind is pointless. Either you care or you don't, and if you don't, go home or see something else. Here's a cool sequence from the immortal Eraserhead that should tell you what to think on that count:
Finally, the intersection of David Lynch and politics has been an equally weird one. He was a fan of Reagan during the '80s he more or less ruled -- even during the Dune mess -- but now has come out as a 9/11 conspiracy theorist, a horde whose numbers are rightly growing by the day. Hey, don't bitch: America has been riding that gravy train to do everything from invade Iraq to hijack your civil liberties. Suckers.
In any case, stay tuned for more David Lynch goods, as Morphizm should be swimming in them sooner rather than later. Just in time for the clusterfuck.
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