Lynch
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Lynch
19.99 €
Goodbye, blue sky — as Pink Floyd sang. No golden sunshine: the sun is hidden behind smoke, the city is engulfed in flames, it has become difficult to breathe. On the morning of January 16, 2025, David Lynch died in Los Angeles. Fire, one of the primary elements of his poetics, turned into an instrument of fate. The last film that Lynch presented on his YouTube channel was called "Fires". Millions, if not billions of people all over the planet responded to the death of the American director: obituaries in leading publications, creative portraits in respectable and mass-market film magazines, pictures and quotes on social networks. When was the last time a filmmaker was seen off, like a relative, by the whole world? Who could have thought that his complex surrealist works could be so needed? Perhaps the reason for Lynch's success lies in his ability to create images that are unexpected and simple at the same time. He was a magician, a pop icon and an eternal child. Yes, childishness is the main secret of Lynch's ability to unite us not only in grief and joy, but also in surprise. A direct view of the world, boundless imagination, readiness for a miracle, naivety in matters of good and evil, sometimes sadistic curiosity - these are the integral features of the worldview of both the director and each of his viewers.
A poet in Russia is more than a poet, and Lynch, it seems, was more than just another cult director from the 1990s for the country. If the art intelligentsia peered at Greenaway on worn-out VHS, teenagers, gangsters and future music video directors loved Tarantino, Jarmusch interested good students from humanities departments, then Twin Peaks, which highlighted the Kafkaesque metamorphoses of the decaying Soviet civilization, was watched by everyone. The mystery of Laura Palmer's death, the impossibility of accurately identifying the culprit of her death, a story about a catastrophe on the scale of a single community, a depiction of its strange representatives and, finally, a reflection in the screen reality of the oddities of a seemingly ordinary life combined with the good-natured intonation of the author - this is how Lynch took a special place in the consciousness (and unconscious) of a post-Soviet person. Working on the collection, we read more than one report on the similarity of the experience of growing up in the post-perestroika years with the vicissitudes of the inhabitants of a distant American town. And although Lynch is still broader than these interpretations, they should not be neglected when talking about a great author. Therefore, we included in the book the articles by Dobrotvorsky and Timofeevsky, which have become classics of Russian film criticism - the features of perception conditioned by time and space are important. Most of the texts in this collection were written in the 2010s-2020s. And this is our first attempt to say goodbye to Lynch, while his presence is still clearly felt. A timid reminder that "the more darkness you understand, the more light you will see." The air is on fire. There's always music in the air.
A poet in Russia is more than a poet, and Lynch, it seems, was more than just another cult director from the 1990s for the country. If the art intelligentsia peered at Greenaway on worn-out VHS, teenagers, gangsters and future music video directors loved Tarantino, Jarmusch interested good students from humanities departments, then Twin Peaks, which highlighted the Kafkaesque metamorphoses of the decaying Soviet civilization, was watched by everyone. The mystery of Laura Palmer's death, the impossibility of accurately identifying the culprit of her death, a story about a catastrophe on the scale of a single community, a depiction of its strange representatives and, finally, a reflection in the screen reality of the oddities of a seemingly ordinary life combined with the good-natured intonation of the author - this is how Lynch took a special place in the consciousness (and unconscious) of a post-Soviet person. Working on the collection, we read more than one report on the similarity of the experience of growing up in the post-perestroika years with the vicissitudes of the inhabitants of a distant American town. And although Lynch is still broader than these interpretations, they should not be neglected when talking about a great author. Therefore, we included in the book the articles by Dobrotvorsky and Timofeevsky, which have become classics of Russian film criticism - the features of perception conditioned by time and space are important. Most of the texts in this collection were written in the 2010s-2020s. And this is our first attempt to say goodbye to Lynch, while his presence is still clearly felt. A timid reminder that "the more darkness you understand, the more light you will see." The air is on fire. There's always music in the air.
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