Lynch Says He’s Done With Film
From an interview MTV conducted with the director:
MTV: You shot “Inland Empire” using digital technology. Will you ever go back to film?
Lynch: Never. Digital is so friendly for me and so important for the scenes, a way of working without so much downtime. It’s impossible to go back. Film is a beautiful medium, but the world has moved on. The amount of manipulation we can do, anybody can do, is so much the future. Film is so big and heavy and slow, you just die. It’s just ridiculous.
This makes me sad. Perhaps the greatest aspect of watching a David Lynch film is the stunning visuals. The grainy, blurry look of Inland Empire, demonstrated to me that video is not yet a suitable substitute for film. If the world has moved on from film, then tell me, David, why does Inland Empire look like it was run through a trucker’s colon?
Read the entire interview here.
*Link via Boingboing.
Comment by Adam Lopez — August 29, 2007 @ 4:51 am
I’m with you Dave. MULHOLLAND DRIVE, WILD AT HEART, so many of Lynch’s classics… look stunning on film. And he loves to make his films almost hypnotic and dreamy. Film works perfect for that approach. But on digital? His stuff just loses a lot of its impact. Sad too bro’