David Lynch, one of the two most inspiring directors I have encountered in “Finding the Ear” studio so far, started off as a painter whose painting had a blown feather stuck on it and moves. Then he wanted to make his painting “move”. Like Christopher Nolan, he has a sense of ambiguity, abstract and non-linear style among his films which is why I’m interested in his works, just because I am into ambiguity myself. David Lynch’s The Alphabet struck me with an inspiring way to portray nightmares. I’ve learned that he is able to both comply harsh reality combined with loving innocents in a marvellous way in his films such as Blue Velvet. Similarly in his short, The Alphabet, He incorporated an innocent girl with a childlike-heart with a harsh, disturbing dark nightmare. Abstractly complemented with blood, monsters in various shapes and scary form of subjects shot in german expressionist style of chiaroscuro lighting and costume, Lynch provides a mash of these horror aesthetics with a likeable little girl character who sings herself the alphabet to get over a nightmare disturbance. This has truly inspires me in which there is an art in mash-up of two or more completely opposing idea/concept.

Lynch’s sense of making a painting move has motivated me to appreciate both visual art and moving image at the same time. I have always liked painting but did not actually try to see paintings and moving image as something that could be combined. I wonder as I’ve taken a framing studio course, if frames, drawings, and films are one type of artistry in a different form just as abstract yet another form of painting. But what about the audio that incorporates films? Can sounds exist within a painting, as if audience can really hear a painting? or do they always hear ‘silence’ as the sound that exist in paintings? Maybe even an imagined sound can be considered as a living component of an artwork.

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