Short Film for LEFFEST (2018), David Lynch

In 2018, David Lynch was once again at the centre of the LEFFEST’s programming, with the extensive program “Waiting for Mr. Lynch”: his work since Inland Empire up to the first episodes of Twin Peaks: The Return was shown, along with the exhibition Small Stories, at MUSA, in Sintra (photomontages from cut-out photographic portraits, reproductions of drawings, engravings and various references) – in the museum’s other wing, the photographer Sandro Miller showcased previously unseen portraits of David Lynch and the series of photographs and short film “Psychogenic Fugue”, where John Malkovich plays iconic characters from the universe of David Lynch –; the launch of the Portuguese edition of the autobiography Room to Dream / Espaço para Sonhar (Ed. Elsinore), with the presence of journalist Krystine McKenna, who co-signed the book with Lynch; and a special session on the long history of singer and actress Chrystabell's collaboration with David Lynch, with the screening of some videoclips and a conversation with Chrystabell, who also sang a capella, before the screening of Inland Empire, the song “Polish Poem”, written by both of them and included in the last minutes of the film. At the time, and because he couldn’t make it to the festival, David Lynch offered us a short film he had directed that week to screen at this programme’s opening, in a world premiere.