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David Lynche, nude, 2000
Série "Nudes and factories from poland"
photographie noir et blanc, 28 x 36cm
The complete films of David Lynch will be presented at Cinémathèque de Toulouse.
Born in 1946 in Missoula (USA), he lives and works in Los Angeles.
David Lynch is one of the most influential directors of his generation. His films, notably Dune, Elephant Man and Blue Velvet, construct a universe where the macabre rubs shoulders with the sublime, where bizarre stories unfold in an unsettling climate, where the ordinary becomes extraordinary. David Lynch's filmography revisits different cinematographic genres, reconstructs 19th century London in black and white, explores the fantastic territory of science fiction and dissects the disturbing strangeness of a small town. The world-famous filmmaker studied painting at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington and the Boston Museum School, before entering the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia in 1965. In his films, the plastic quality of the image reinforces the relevance of the subject.
David Lynch exhibits here a selection of photographs gathered especially for le Printemps de septembre in Toulouse, which provide a counterpoint to this 2001 edition.