Death of David Lynch: Mind-bending Twin Peaks Director

Alex Taylor at BBC Culture:

David Lynch once said he was inspired to become a filmmaker when, while painting, he inexplicably heard a gust of wind and saw the artwork move on canvas.

The moment defined his obsession with “seeing paintings move”, but also his flair for the bizarre – twisting realities on the small and big screen for almost 40 years. The 78-year-old US director, who has died months after announcing an emphysema diagnosis, became the contemporary face of weird, unsettling worlds often hidden within everyday society – from TV series Twin Peaks to films like Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire. A self-professed daydreamer, Lynch burst onto the scene via the midnight movie circuit with 1977’s Eraserhead. The disorientating horror, a comment on male paranoia, set the layered template that ran through his work.

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