Beginning with Lost Highway, director David Lynch "swerved" in a new direction,
one in which very disorienting images of the physical world take center stage in
his films. Seeking to understand this unusual emphasis in his work, noted Lynch
scholar Martha Nochimson engaged Lynch in a long conversation of unprecedented
openness, during which he shared his vision of the physical world as an uncertai
n place that masks important universal realities. He described how he derives th
is vision from the Holy Vedas of the Hindu religion, as well as from his layman'
s fascination with modern physics. With this deep insight, Nochimson forges a st
artlingly original template for analyzing Lynch's later films-the seemingly unli
kely combination of the spiritual landscape envisioned in the Holy Vedas and the
material landscape evoked by quantum mechanics and relativity. In David Lynch S
werves, Nochimson navigates the complexities of Lost Highway, The Straight Story
, Mulholland Drive, and Inland Empire.
