ONLINE CLASS · MAKING SENSE OF LOST HIGHWAY
To make sense of a David Lynch film, we must immerse ourselves in it—perhaps even obsess over it. Beginning next Sunday, October 18 join Thomas Mical, Ph.D.—Director of the Esoteric Library of the Kangra Valley—for an intensive course centering on the strange, shifting world of Lost Highway, Lynch’s 1997 neo-noir
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labyrinth of fractured identities, unstable time, doubles, desire, and dread. Across four sessions, we will trace the film’s bifurcated characters and nonlinear form; explore Lynch’s use of sound, editing, cinematography, and noir; consider the psychological and supernatural forces that shape its world; and closely examine its enigmatic final sequence, including the desert house that burns in reverse. Over the course of four weeks, we will develop new ways of watching, and new interpretations of one of Lynch’s most elusive and haunting films.