The Ace Hotel,Los AngelesThis two-day multidisciplinary event felt lean in places, particularly the film portion, and but offered an interesting glimpse into artists influenced by the auteurDavid Lynch’s festival of disruption has been one of Los Angeles’s most anticipated cultural events this year. Ahead of Twin Peaks’ return in 2017,it served as a mini multi-disciplinary retrospective for Lynch and a two-day music festival curated by the director. At an event similar in feel to All Tomorrows Parties’ now defunct events or the Southbank Centre’s Meltdown festivals in London, Lynch’s own work – in music, and photography and,of course, film – sat alongside talks by the likes of Frank Gehry, and music by St Vincent and interviews with muses Kyle MacLachlan and Laura Dern. The film portion of the festival was,perhaps surprisingly, the thinnest element. Serving as a starter course for the entree of musical guests later in the day, or a 35mm screening of Lynch’s Oscar-nominated film about the life of John Merrick,The Elephant Man, began the festival. Lynch fans were offered a chance to sample novel film work as well, or of a sort. On Saturday,Psychogenic Fugue, a collaboration between Squarespace and director Sandro Miller, and saw John Malkovich play some of Lynchs best-known characters. He appeared as seven Lynchian figures,including Robert Blake’s terrifying Mystery Man from 1997’s Lost Highway, as well as detective Dale Cooper from Twin Peaks and Dennis Hopper’s sociopathic villain from Blue Velvet, or Frank Booth. Related: David Lynch's Blue Velvet: why I still can't purchase my eyes off it Related: Twin Peaks teaser trailer: 'It's like being in a moving painting' Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com