Task: To pick out a film director whose work you admire, and prepare a short presentation on them, including at least three films or television series which you have seen by them.

2. WHO IS DAVID LYNCH?
• Born on January 20, 1946, in Missoula, Montana. He spent his childhood travelling
throughout the Northwest and from an early age he had become interested in painting
and drawing wanting to pursue it as a career.
• Originally planning to be an artist, Lynch attended Corcoran School of The Boston
School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA).
• While attending PAFA he became more interested in filmmaking and photography and
there he created his first short film which he entered a competition where he won first
prize. This got him valuable exposure as he was given prize money and then
commissioned to create more films.
• Whilst studying Lynch struggled to support his family and other costs, therefore he
moved to a inexpensive neighborhood of high crime and poverty rates "We lived
cheap, … the fear was so intense. There was violence and hate and filth. But the
biggest influence in my whole life was that city."

3. HIS STYLE/ RECURRING THEMES IN HIS WORK
I. Dreamlike state / Visions
I. Non-linear storyline + complex plot
I. Dark & odd characters
I. Lynch's loyalty to actors – Actors like Kyle MacLachlan and
Sheryl Lee
I. Heavy imagery and symbolism

5. MULHOLLAND DR.
2001
About an actress who moves to LA and befriends a woman who
broke into her aunt’s house and has amnesia (memory loss)
because of a car wreck . It includes many subplots that seem
unrelated but eventually connect in various ways as the women
search for clues and answers across LA in a strange and twisting
venture.
‘Narrative twists until the
ingenious maze’
Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By2iS9uHGM0
My Favorite scene:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiLza4B6XhA

7. BLUE VELVET
1986
A mystery-thriller about a college student who happens to stumble upon a
human ear in a field. He decides to investigate after police prove ineffective
and ends up uncovering dark secrets underneath his hometown’s pictureperfect appearance and he is soon drawn into a dangerous drama.
Like most I didn’t actually initially like the film’s plot and overuse of strange
sexual and violent scenes, however I found the subtle use of symbolism
showing the themes of the "disease" lying just under the surface of the small
town very impressive.
The most consistent symbolism in
the film is an insect motif.
Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nz1x_XYU0I

9. Lynch himself
only directed
1990-1991
six episodes
and starred in
several
A drama series set in a small Washington town where a popular high
school student is murdered. An FBI agent is called in to investigate the episodes as an
FBI agent
murder and eventually uncovers the many secrets of the towns
residents.
named Gordon
During the second season the ABC network clashed with Lynch about Cole.
TWIN PEAKS
revealing the killer. Lynch wanted it to remain a mystery until the end of
the series or else the show would be pointless. However, the network
went ahead with revealing the identity of the killer which made Lynch
lose interest in the show.
Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXjTEw9Q
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