This program curated by Gary Vanasian places selected films by both artists into a dialogue. Both Argento and Lynch use the specific expressive possibilities of film-color, light, camera movement, music, editing-to create works that only fully reveal their all-enveloping quality in their original analogue format and in the cinema auditorium. Unlike Argento, he has been recognized as an auteur by film scholars for some time, with his oeuvre forming the subject of numerous studies. Over the course of his career, Lynch developed an unmistakable cinematic language, which serves to abruptly transform seemingly perfect surfaces into frighteningly deformed, absurdist, bizarre distorting mirrors. His first feature ERASERHEAD (which was also released in his early 30s) is a milestone in fantastical, surrealist cinema. For his part, David Lynch was a painter before he discovered film.
The unique design of his films such as PROFONDO ROSSO and SUSPIRIA continue to influence (genre) cinema to this day. Their explicit, highly choreographed scenes of violence are a ritual element rooted in painting and nightmare, touching on primal angst and the universal fear of death. Supernatural and mythological elements began entering his films more and more, which became ever more opulent in terms of direction. His first works called a whole new style into being, reconfiguring the crime film genre known as giallo as an avant-garde form. Following a career as a screenwriter, including for C’era una volta il West by Sergio Leone, Argento made his directorial debut at the age of 30. The works of both directors plumb the unfathomable depths of the human psyche, finding piercing, universal images for individual traumas, obsessions, and states of mental emergency that are at once disturbing and touching.
Horror and beauty, dark abysses and rooms of shimmering color, destructive violence and sensual visual discoveries: such seeming oppositions become inextricably linked in the cinematic worlds of Dario Argento (*1940) and David Lynch (*1946).
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