30. Film Festival della Lessinia
Bosco Chiesanuova (Italia)
23 August - 1 September 2024

Twin Peaks is the most famous television series conceived and directed by David Lynch: a turning point in the world of the cathode ray tube, it follows the investigation of the murder of high school student Laura Palmer, an event never shown that acts as a trigger for an exploration of the story. The pilot episode of the first season, continued with a third in 2017, was composed in an extended version to obtain a complete narrative structure. Twin Peaks is the imaginary town of a mountain resort, on the border between the United States and Canada, in the state of Washington. Ghostwood and the mountains that dominate the horizon are the background for a fracture in the narrative linearity, in which the places, the characters and the spectator himself are transported beyond the perceptive dimensions of reality. Agent Gale Cooper's investigations outline a plot whose form is difficult to define:  the camp atmosphere, the alienation of the characters and the pursuit of a mystery that evokes secret and evil forces hidden in the folds of the world emerge from the abyss of Lynch's mind and lead the vision to a progressive discovery of the fire that consumed the city: "In a town like Twin Peaks, no one is innocent."

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  David Lynch

  Director, painter, composer, and author: it is hard to define who or what is David Lynch. His artistic identity falls at the edge of research that deconstructs the forms of visual representation. By shifting the perceptive axis into distorted universes and narrations that mix dreams and reality, delirium and phenomena, his works lacerate the surface of the cinematic story to reach experimental and obscure depths.