I DREAMED A DREAM

It’s weird, it’s strange and it’s absurd.

David Lynch’s 2007 short film positions me with a whirlwind of feelings and emotions. Especially the sound design for the film grips my attention immediately. James mentioned in class how the disembodied voices seem like their in separate rooms to the main narrator, and upon a second viewing I totally agree. The quirky use of grabbing a megaphone offscreen and having the actor yell through it had me enjoying the short even more. I know this isn’t supposed to be a review type of blog, but today’s class presented a lot of great short films that were more my speed.

Now after extensive research on the interwebs, which translates to me spending about 10 minutes after class on imdb and other miscellaneous fact sites, I couldn’t find anything of significance regarding his short aside from the fact that it was a part of the “To Each His Own Cinema” anthology series released at the 2007 Cannes film festival. Now after learning this, I thought about how “Absurda” would fit along with other films in the series, since Lynch is known for being very abstract and incoherent. But I don’t have the patience to search and watch all 34 short films, but eventually one day I will experience it.

So it’s not a priority right now but what I am most interested in here is the sound design of the short film, and how it engaged me so well. I feel like it’s the style I would love to adapt into my future work, utilizing the different intensities that Lynch used. Especially since the shot was very static with things only moving in frame and sound occurring outside of it, it really created the illusion of a dream.

So where do I go from here? Well I’m going to definitely look more into David Lynch’s work, especially his sound design, but I am weary of the amount of weird I will have to shift through. If “The Alphabet” was any indication of how grotesque and abstract his work can get I am both excited and scared to find more like it, although I’m not exactly shy of watching some weird things myself. I’m going to link a music video which I find shares a lot of similar themes in composition and editing. Lynch’s visual really reminded me of Kyary Pamyu Pamyu’s work, and maybe this is an indication that eventually I can get into his work some more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvtoyk9DisM

References

Everything Explained Today, http://everything.explained.today/To_Each_His_Own_Cinema/