The dark, surrealistic artistic vision of David Lynch, whose death was announced on January 16, was shown through films like Eraserhead (1977), Mulholland Drive (2001) and Blue Velvet (1986), and his TV show Twin Peaks (1990-2017).
Lynch’s work is unique and influential enough to have spawned the adjective “Lynchian”, which, like the man himself, is at once both easy to recognise and hard to define. It involved a unique storytelling approach, surrealistic visuals, atmospheric techniques and complex characters.
Lynch also understood that sound was as important – and at times more so – as the images on screen. A key aspect of the worlds he created was the music that inhabited them.
