about the film

Lynch is an intimate and sweeping journey into the fascinating mind of the man who created such visionary classics as Eraserhead, Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Wild at Heart, The Elephant Man and Inland Empire. Compiled from over two years and 700 hours of footage, the film is a close up portrait of Lynch’s creative process as he completes his latest film, Inland Empire. We are with him as he discovers the beauty in ideas, leading us on a journey through the abstract which ultimately unveils his cinematic vision. We are with him as he sits at his desk, updating his website, we see him get on his hands and knees to fix up a stage, we listen to him speak about his relationship to transcendental meditation, we watch him walk Laura Dern through a scene, acting it out himself, and wonder as he tells an aide that he needs a one-legged, 16-year-old girl and a spider monkey for a particular scene. In fact, the documentary lets us get so close to the director that there are rumours that it is the playful David Lynch himself who actually directed Lynch. Regardless, Lynch reinforces the auteur's reputation as a one-of-a-kind genius.

about the director

The masked and anonymous director blackANDwhite was born in 1970 and got his Psychology degree at the University of Colorado. He then moved to Los Angeles and after some time, started working as David Lynch's assistant in 1997. He has been using many pseudonyms over the years, and believes that a certain name fits a certain type of project. BlackANDwhite is now working on a project he chooses to keep secret for the time being, and will return putting together the second and third parts of the Lynch trilogy.

festivals

• 2007 Munich Film Festival
• Edinburgh Film Festival
• Locarno Film Festival: Critic’s Week
• San Sebastian Film Festival
• Toronto Film Festival