Lynch early inspirations
Hi everyone, I want to share a question that's been nagging me, even though I've seen all his films, listened to many interviews, and even read several books about David (yes, I'm a huge fan). What perplexes me most is how Lynch claims that when he shot his first films (The Grandmother and Eraserhead) he hadn't seen or been familiar with surrealist cinema (Bunuel, Deren, Cocteau). Although films like Eraserhead are very personal, it's always seemed incredible to me how, without any cinematic inspiration, someone could have such a distinctive style, or one that can at least be traced back to the surrealism that Lynch claimed to have never seen. This curiosity of mine also stems from the fact that, having seen Lynch's films at a relatively young age, many of my creative and writing tastes are somehow influenced by them, and I find it truly mind-blowing that he managed to establish himself with this style from nowhere. For example, surrealists like Bunuel or Jodorowsky were close to the Surrealist movement and the Surrealist movement had Freud as its primary inspiration, so this fixation with dreams did not arise out of nowhere in that case either. I am curious of what you think