Film Forno

Here’s a video I made from a song Lynch did. My friend Pascal worked with him and remixed the tune adding the great harmonica part.

As we all know by now the great artist known as David Lynch passed on to the next realm a few days ago. I can’t believe it, I felt he would always be at his compound on Outpost creating word stuff. It was reassuring if he posted a weather report or a strange short film or whatever else he did. Furniture making, painting, photography. He was such a quintessential part of Los Angeles, a City that he loved so much.

It’s heartbreaking that he’s not here to enjoy the Sunshine and inspire all of us. My good friend Joe Montgomery lived for a while on Outpost. He just passed on about a year ago, he was a Camerman that grew up in Hollywood s o Lynh’s passing conjure thoughts of another brilliant point of light we just lost.

I just watched an interview with Lynch where he talked about Mullholland Drive. He originally made it as a TV pilot for ABC. But the idiot executive in charge passed on it, Pitiful. Lynch was devastated but then someone offered to raise the money to turn it into a Feature. Lynch said yes. It took about 18 months to make it happen. Lynch said when he signed the deal to make it into a Feature he had zero ideas on how to do that. But that night he meditated and said all the necessary ideas came to him “like a string of pearls.”

And he wound up making what many people believe to be his masterpiece. Now this is what I am referring to as the Triumph of David Lynch. He goes from abject failure to a masterpiece with the same project! His creativity did not bow to Hollywood convention, it overcame it and surpassed it in an incredible way. The story of Mullholland Drive has similar dynamics vis a vis the Hollywood Experience. A young woman comes here, she’s full of hopes and dreams to make it as an actress. She gets an audition, she nails it, showing tremendous talent, in what I feel is the best scene of the film. Then the unfair mechanisms of Hollywood grind away and she is passed by, This is the essential Hollywood dynamic and Lynch expresses it and explores it in such an amazing creative way.

God Bless Him! May Luis Bunuel, Jacques Tati, Orson Welles, Jean Renoir, Fritz Lang, Francois Truffaut, Bob Downey, Bud Smith, Pablo Ferro, Joe Montgomery all welcome him to Film Heaven.