About This Event
Free screening of David Lynch's final feature Inland Empire (2006, English), a three-hour digitally shot descent into fractured identity starring Laura Dern, part of the David Lynch In Memoriam cycle.
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Part of the 'Maestros del cine contemporaneo (XII): David Lynch - In Memoriam' cycle, this screening presents Inland Empire (USA, 2006), Lynch's final feature film. 180 minutes. In English. Starring Laura Dern as Nikki Grace, an actress cast in a film that turns out to be the remake of an unfinished production based on a cursed folk tale, Inland Empire dissolves the boundaries between performer and role, dream and reality, past and present. Shot entirely on a Sony PD 150 digital camera over three years, without a completed script, Lynch wrote and filmed scene by scene in a process of free association, assembling the narrative only once a unifying shape emerged midway through production. The grainy, low-resolution digital imagery - murky colours, pixelated shadows, images that seem to fold in on themselves - mirrors the fractured, subconscious logic of the story. Lynch embraced the medium's limitations rather than disguising them, producing textures as tactile as anything he achieved on celluloid. The result is a hypnotic, terrifying experience that critics compared to a "diabolic twin" of Mulholland Drive, though stripped of its predecessor's old-Hollywood glamour. The project began when Lynch ran into his neighbour Laura Dern, who suggested they work together again. He wrote a fourteen-page monologue that she performed in a single seventy-minute take - material too good, Lynch felt, to release online as originally planned. From there, each new scene led to the next until the film took shape. The title itself came from Dern mentioning that her then husband was from the Inland Empire area east of Los Angeles. Additional scenes were filmed in the Polish city of Lodz, home to a prestigious film school where directors such as Andrzej Wajda and Roman Polanski studied, whose abandoned factories inspired Lynch. A cinema booklet accompanies the screening. Organised by Cineclub Universitario UGR / Aula de Cine 'Eugenio Martin'. Free entry until full.