David Keith Lynch January 20, β January 15, was an American filmmaker, visual artist, musician, and actor. Widely considered one of the most important filmmakers in the history of cinema, Lynch was often called a "visionary" and was acclaimed for films often distinguished by their surrealist and experimental qualities. In a career spanning more than five decades, he received numerous accolades , including the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Film Festival in and an Honorary Academy Award in The adjective Lynchian came into use to describe works or situations reminiscent of his art, [ 2 ] with the Oxford English Dictionary noting his penchant for "juxtaposing surreal or sinister elements with mundane, everyday environments, and for using compelling visual images to emphasize a dreamlike quality of mystery or menace".
Lynch studied painting and made short films before making his first feature-length film, the independent body horror film Eraserhead , which found success as a midnight movie. He then earned critical acclaim as well as nominations for the Academy Award for Best Director for the biographical drama The Elephant Man , the mystery thriller Blue Velvet , and the psychological drama Mulholland Drive He also directed the space opera Dune , the neo-noir Lost Highway , the road movie The Straight Story , and the experimental thriller Inland Empire Lynch co-wrote and directed its film prequel, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me and a third season in Lynch also worked as a musician, releasing solo albums and a variety of collaborations; a visual artist, including painting, furniture design, and photography; and an author, publishing the books Images , Catching the Big Fish and Room to Dream A practitioner of Transcendental Meditation , he founded the David Lynch Foundation to fund meditation lessons for at-risk populations.
A lifelong smoker, he died from complications of emphysema after being evacuated from his home due to the Southern California wildfires. My childhood was elegant homes, tree-lined streets, the milkman, building backyard forts, droning airplanes, blue skies, picket fences, green grass, cherry trees. Middle America as it's supposed to be.
But on the cherry tree there's this pitch oozing out β some black, some yellow, and millions of red ants crawling all over it. I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath. Because I grew up in a perfect world, other things were a contrast. Two of Lynch's maternal great-grandparents were Finnish-Swedish immigrants who arrived in the U. Then my father would drop me in the woods and go off. It was a weird, comforting feeling being in the woods.
Lynch's sister Martha was born there. I found the world completely and totally fantastic as a child. Of course, I had the usual fears, like going to school It destroyed the seeds of liberty. The teachers didn't encourage knowledge or a positive attitude. Alongside his schooling, Lynch joined the Boy Scouts. Later, he said he "became [a Scout] so I could quit and put it behind me". Kennedy , which took place on Lynch's 15th birthday.
