![]() Drawing on, and often combining, the aesthetics of Surrealism, film noir, psychodrama, soap opera, and science fiction, Lynch has created a universe where characters struggle to do the right thing despite being compelled by external and internal forces that threaten their moral, psychological, and physical well-being. ![]() ![]() The uncanny intersection of the bizarre and the banal, so brilliantly depicted in Eraserhead, is the rich territory from which, in different ways, all of Lynch’s subsequent works for film and television have emerged. His first feature, Eraserhead-five years in the making at the American Film Institute-encompasses a completely unique, self-contained world, a nightmare vision of urban alienation and physical and psychological dread that is both incomparably strange and unsettlingly familiar. ![]() Since discovering the film medium as a student at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Lynch has gone on pushing formal boundaries, employing conventions only to resist, transcend, or complicate them. David Lynch has noted that when he was a child his mother, observing his passion for drawing, never gave him a coloring book this allowed him to create unrestricted by any predetermined shape or line. ![]()
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