The World Mourns The Death Of Visionary Filmmaker, David Lynch
Many, including our team, are mourning the loss of David Lynch, who passed away earlier today at the age of 78. Lynch was a visionary filmmaker who redefined cinema—he understood the world in a way no one else did, and all of us are lucky to exist at the same time he did. Without him, we wouldn’t have Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive, Dune, Blue Velvet, Inland Empire, and many more.
It’s difficult to describe his impact, he was an artist whose work perfectly captured the delicate dance between beauty and darkness. He forced us to stare at our collective hopes and fears not with horror, but curiousity. Lynch gave us the language to properly articulate the indescribable strangeness of the human condition, bending the cinematic artform to the will of his mind. He will be greatly missed.
Today, the internet mourns:
Kyle Maclachlan, his longtime collaborator and friend, shared one of the most touching, and heartbreaking, tributes on social media, writing:
Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my comprehension, David Lynch plucked me out of obscurity to star in his first and last big budget movie. He clearly saw something in me that even I didn’t recognize. I owe my entire career, and life really, to his vision.
What I saw in him was an enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative ocean bursting forth inside of him. He was in touch with something the rest of us wish we could get to.
Our friendship blossomed on Blue Velvet and then Twin Peaks and I always found him to be the most authentically alive person I’d ever met.
David was in tune with the universe and his own imagination on a level that seemed to be the best version of human. He was not interested in answers because he understood that questions are the drive that make us who we are. They are our breath.
While the world has lost a remarkable artist, I’ve lost a dear friend who imagined a future for me and allowed me to travel in worlds I could never have conceived on my own.
I can see him now, standing up to greet me in his backyard, with a warm smile and big hug and that Great Plains honk of a voice. We’d talk coffee, the joy of the unexpected, the beauty of the world, and laugh.
His love for me and mine for him came out of the cosmic fate of two people who saw the best things about themselves in each other.
I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear. My world is that much fuller because I knew him and that much emptier now that he’s gone.
David, I remain forever changed, and forever your Kale. Thank you for everything.
