MARKED MOVIES

Just five days before his 79th birthday, cinema lost one of its true artistic visionaries when David Lynch sadly passed away on January 15th, 2025. A true cult icon that encouraged an engagement and surrendering to his work in order to experience more. That in itself is a true expression of art that few filmmakers are capable of and his death will leave an incredible loss for cinema and creativity in and of itself.

Lynch’s talents were not just for creating movies, though; he created worlds, atmospheres and voids. He created a wonder of life itself; the nightmares, the dreamscapes, the beautiful and dark parallel worlds in which we can co-exist with doppelgängers and psychogenic fugues. How he even managed to convey this in film form was just a miraculous achievement and one that I genuinely do not think we will ever see again in our lifetimes. Lynch was a singular visionary, a genuine artist who managed to project his art, his abstraction, his surrealism and his knowledge of dream interpretation and theoretical cosmic illusions onto the screen for all of us to rejoice in and explore and be confused or confounded by. David Lynch was quite simply the most abstractly intelligent filmmaker I have ever experienced and his visionary approach even managed to become an adjective in the dictionary with anything strange or surreal now being described as “Lynchian”.