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David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker, visual artist, and musician. Lynch has received critical acclaim for his films, which are often distinguished by their surrealist , dreamlike qualities.
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1970s Gardenback. Before starting work on Eraserhead, Lynch...
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Images, first published in 1994, [1] is a book by David Lynch. [2] . The book "in which he chooses representative selections from his various modes of self-expression" [3] may serve as an introduction to his own work. Contents. Moving Images. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. Industrial Symphony No. 1. Wild at Heart. Twin Peaks.
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- David Lynch
- 1994
- Hyperion Books
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- Birth and Childhood
- Art Student
- Short Films
- AFI Conservatory
- After Eraserhead
- Footnotes
Lynch was born on January 20, 1946, in Missoula, Montana to Donald and Edwina "Sunny" (née Sundholm) Lynch, who met as students at Duke University. David was the eldest of three siblings. For the most part a housewife, Sunny also tutored English lessons, having earned her degree at Duke. Donald Lynch worked for the United States Department of Agric...
Lynch's interest in art began at an early age; he recalled his father bringing home large amounts of paper from his government job, and because his mother would not let him use coloring books, he would draw and paint on this spare paper. Lynch's early artwork mostly depicted war-related imagery—weaponry and fighter planes—based on his collection of...
Lynch's experiments with moving sculptures led to his interest in the medium of motion picture film. In 1966, with the help of Fisk, Lynch animated a one-minute short feature called Six Figures Getting Sick; the project cost $200 and was filmed with a sixteen millimeter camera.The sculpture-motion picture was a simple animated loop of several figur...
Having completed The Grandmother, Lynch realized that filmmaking was the career he wanted to pursue. He accepted a scholarship at the AFI Conservatory, Lynch moved to Los Angeles, California, with his family, and recalls having felt "the evaporation of fear" after leaving the crime and poverty of Philadelphia. Lynch was dissatisfied with the Conser...
Eraserhead premièred at the Filmex film festival in Los Angeles, on March 19, 1977. On its opening night, the film was attended by 25 people. The second evening had 24 viewers. Ben Barenholtz, head of distributor Libra Films International, persuaded local theater Cinema Village to run the film as a midnight feature, where it continued for a year. A...
References
1. Hoberman, J; Rosenbaum, Jonathan (1991). Midnight Movies. Da Capo. ISBN 0-306-80433-6. 2. Odell, Colin; Le Blanc, Michelle (2007). David Lynch. Kamera Books. ISBN 978-1-84243-225-9. 3. Olson, Greg (2008). Beautiful Dark (illustrated ed.). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-5917-3. 4. Rodley, Chris; Lynch, David (2005). Lynch on Lynch (2nd ed.). Macmillan. ISBN 0-571-22018-5.
- Filmmaker
- American Film Institute Conservatory
- 1966–present
- David Keith Lynch, January 20, 1946 (age 77), Missoula, Montana, U.S.
David Lynch | Director Supercut. 17 Videos. 99+ Photos. Born in precisely the kind of small-town American setting so familiar from his films, David Lynch spent his childhood being shunted from one state to another as his research scientist father kept getting relocated. He attended various art schools, married Peggy Lynch and then fathered ...
View all 33 artworks. David Lynch was born in 1946, a remarkable figure of American Neo-Surrealism and Neo-Expressionism. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.