Synopsis
An absurdist comedy short starring David Lynch and his son, Austin, who play two bizarre, high pitched characters with a very unique way with words. They encounter a large, destructive human figure referred to as 'The Neighbor Boy'.
Program Note
David Lynch's surreal visuals, nonlinear narratives, and bizarre sounds beautifully bleach the anxiety—ridden soul within us. His obsession with sound and experimental approach as a musician and sound director can be experienced through his short films and music videos. The claustrophobic terror and voyeurism are intensified by women's voices and sounds in The Darkened Room; the anxious whispers of a woman or camera following the sound of a boat piloted by Lynch in Boat; Lynch¡¯s playful object-making in Lamp, where rhythm machines and dissonance collide; the humorous sound farce Out Yonder Neighbor Boy, featuring two fool-like characters, Lynch and a young man, distracted by off-frame sound effects and threatened by the shadow of a giant boy; Industrial Soundscape, which reimagines Eraserhead scenes through cycles of industrial machinery movements and noise feedback loops; Bug Crawls, Lynch's unique olfactory aesthetic, where Kafka's The Metamorphosis-like bugs produce unpleasant, pitiful noises crawling through the house; Intervalometer Experiments, a moving image that predicts and observes shadows rampant amid changing light and time, sound attacks, and landscape exposure through optical machines; I Touch a Red Button, a strange video created with the rock band Interpol's Lights, screened at the 2011 Coachella Festival; Wicked Game, mixing Chris Isaak's music with footage from Wild at Heart, winning the 1991 MTV Awards for Best Video; and I am the Shaman, a space fantasy made with folk rock master Donovan, a fellow transcendental meditation advocate like Lynch, invited into Lynch¡¯s darkroom as an "auditory-visual" experience. (Kim Taeyong)