INDUSTRIAL SYMPHONY NO. 1 David Lynch Angelo Badalamenti, Julee Cruise

TO CELEBRATE / MOURN DAVID LYNCH PASSING

A rare screening of the Lynch directed avant-garde musical play called 'Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Broken Hearted' with music by Angelo Badalamenti and Julee Cruise.

The film tells the story of a heartbroken woman (played by Laura Dern) who floats over an industrial wasteland and sings ballads of love after her boyfriend (Nicolas Cage) leaves her. Made before the unprecedented success of his cult-classic TV show Twin Peaks, it is the footage from an original play which was presented at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1989. The experimental work is named after a series of complex mosaics in geometric shapes designed by Lynch. He made them while he was studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and called them Industrial Symphonies.

Often seen as a spiritual companion to his 1990 film Wild at Heart because it also co-stars Dern and Cage, Industrial Symphonies No. 1 is a hallucinatory dream that explores the concepts of love and pain in the modern dystopia. Julee Cruise plays “the dreamself” of the heartbroken woman who sings beautifully, even singing from the inside of a trunk of a car at one point. Many of the songs from the musical were recycled in Twin Peaks, including two of Julee’s recordings “Rockin’ Back Inside My Heart” and “The World Spins”.

“She’s \[Cruise\] got a great voice and when she sings soft and pure, it’s just what the doctor ordered,” Lynch said. “You know, the music is going along and it’s making pictures form in your mind. Build those pictures, put them up and play the music with it. If it gave you a feeling inside your head, it might do the same to others. To make a distant interpretation or intellectually try to understand them, it’s sort of not what it’s about.”

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Presented by Deeper Into Movies.

This is an 18+ event.