The Landscape of Alan Moore, which we discussed yesterday, awoke in me the interest to see another documentary on one of our scarce mad geniuses alive, the ever original David Lynch.
Lynch (One) covers a period of about two years (2005-2006) and witnesses the recording of some videos for DavidLynch.com affiliates, the creation of some of his pictorial works and the shooting of scenes for his most recent feature film Inland Empire. Unfortunately, the selection of rather unsignificant moments tells us very little about the character or his creative force.
Forget being the best of anything. That’s the fruit of the action, and you do the work -they say- for the doing, not the fruit. You can never really know how it’s gonna turn out in the world but you know if you enjoy doing it. And ideas start flowing and you start, you know, getting excited about stuff. Then you’re having a great time in the doing and that’s what it’s all about. If you don’t enjoy the doing, then do something else.
Lynch praises the virtues of meditation, as he did in Catching the Big Fish -which we can discuss some other day-, and invites all artists to medidate in order to -according to his words- reach a state of pure creativity. He then refutes the theory that the artist must suffer in order to create, and claims that artists will be more creative the happier they are. Beyond these claims, the apprentice genius -or even the Lynch fan- will get very little out of this boring documentary.
Yo también pienso que cuanto más feliz es un artista, mayor es su capacidad creadora. Estoy un poco cansado de ese tópico del escritor atormentado e infeliz que no tiene donde caerse muerto. Algo diferente es un artista con muchísimo talento y que es capaz de crear una gran obra en los momentos más difíciles de su vida. Pero eso no significa que sus creaciones sean mejores por estar pasando una mala racha. Yo, por ejemplo, cuando más ganas tengo de escribir es cuando estoy contento y relajado. Si los problemas me agobian, la mente se me nubla y no… Leer más »
Hay una parte de verdad en el tópico, y es que cuando algo te atormenta, necesitas sacarlo fuera, y escribirlo es una válvula habitual. Seguramente por eso hay tanta basura adolescente ;D