Weird, wonderful and forever wild at heart – the iconic David Lynch is taking over HOME this summer. Featuring art, film, music and more, this special season of events is a unique opportunity to immerse yourself in the world of the pioneering American artist, musician and director of such works as Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive and Twin Peaks.
Every corner of HOME will be inhabited by a Lynchian spirit for Manchester International Festival right through to September. In our gallery, My Head Is Disconnected is the first major UK exhibition of Lynch’s paintings, drawings and sculpture. In the theatre, Lynch collaborator Chrysta Bell presents a series of one-off live shows from Lynch-inspired musicians. In the cinema, there’ll be screenings of Lynch’s classic movies and rare short films, along with those of the directors who influenced him. We’ll also be hosting conversations, masterclasses and much more.
Don’t miss this chance to take a trip into the mind of one of contemporary culture’s most radical and visionary figures.
Curated by Sarah Perks and Omar Kholeif with Mary Anne Hobbs and Jason Wood.
Commissioned and produced by HOME and Manchester International Festival in association with the David Lynch Foundation UK.
In this season
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David Lynch at HOME: Film & Music Programme Announced
David Lynch at HOME: Film & Music Programme announced and on sale from Thu 9 May
Previously in this season
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It’s a Great Big Wonderful World: David Lynch Film Season
To complement the exhibition My Head is Disconnected, we will be curating a season of work both directed by Lynch and work that he has…
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Sunset Boulevard
This acid-etched portrait of Tinseltown remains one of the darkest movies on moviemaking.
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Blue Velvet
A classic of American cinema starring Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper and Laura Dern. A clean-cut young man makes a gruesome discovery which leads him to…
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The Straight Story + Introduction
This Fri 23 Aug, 18:00 screening of The Straight Story will be introduced by Jason Wood, Creative Director: Film and Culture at HOME.
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Wild at Heart + Introduction
Th 20:15 screening of Wild at Heart will be introduced by Maggie Hoffgen, freelance film educator.
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Mulholland Drive
Consistently hailed as the best film of the 21st century, David Lynch's quintessential neo-noir thrives on Watts career-making performance as an aspiring Hollywood actress who,…
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Blue Velvet + Post-Screening Discussion
There will be a post screening discussion with filmmakers and visual artists AL and AL following the screening of Blue Velvet on Sun 18 Aug.
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Dune + Introduction
This screening of Dune on Sat 17 Aug at 17:30 will be introduced by Dr Amy C Chambers, Senior Lecturer in Film and Media Studies…
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The Man Without a Past
In Helsinki, a man gets beaten up so severely he develops amnesia. Unable to remember anything from his past, he slowly starts building himself a…
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Eraserhead
Lynch's tale of an eccentric loner in a nightmare post-industrial landscape, it’s guaranteed to haunt your dreams.
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Lost Highway
Director David Lynch travels the weird back roads of America, musing on dreams and identity.
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David Lynch Presents: Anna Calvi (solo) + Douglas Dare + Chrysta Bell
The extraordinary Anna Calvi performs a rare solo show to open our three-night stand of musical innovators and pioneers inspired by the work of David…
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David Lynch Presents: These New Puritans + Whyte Horses + Chrysta Bell
The magnificent These New Puritans perform a specially devised set of reimagined pieces from David Lynch films.
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Wild at Heart
A road movie that fuses Bonnie and Clyde with The Wizard of Oz, the hyper-violent Wild at Heart won Lynch the Palme d’Or.
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Inland Empire
David Lynch's sprawling Hollywood nightmare takes the perspective of Nikki Grace – an out-of-favour actress who's engulfed in the cursed production of her comeback film…
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David Lynch Presents: Oliver Coates + Hatis Noit + Chrysta Bell
For the final show in our three-night David Lynch-inspired series, musician and longtime Lynch associate Chrysta Bell is joined by two of today’s most inventive…
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Artist Talk: David Lynch (via video link)
Sarah Perks hosts an in-conversation via live video link with Director David Lynch covering his diverse artistic practice, from his iconic film and TV work…
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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Reviled on release, this film set in Deer Meadow, an alternate and hellish Twin Peaks, has undergone a huge critical reappraisal and is now seen…
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The Wizard of Oz
When Dorothy Gale gets caught in a tornado she ends up in the magical land of Oz.
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BSL Led Gallery Tour: David Lynch My Head is Disconnected
Join Art and Design Historian, Jennifer Little for a British Sign Language-led tour of this major exhibition by David Lynch.
Exhibition
David Lynch: My Head is Disconnected
We host the first major UK exhibition of work by David Lynch.
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Talk: I’ll See You in My Dreams
In this talk, Dr Kirsty Fairclough from the University of Salford will examine the phenomenon that is the world of Twin Peaks.
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Meditation, Creativity, Peace
This documentary is an exhilarating, inspiring round-up of questions and answers from David Lynch's European and Middle East tours of 2007-2009.
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David Lynch: The Power of Transcendental Meditation
Join a panel including David Lynch (via video link), musician Tim Burgess and Deirdre Parsons, executive director of the David Lynch Foundation UK, on an…
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David Lynch: The Art Life
An intimate portrait of the master director, screenwriter and producer, David Lynch.
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Twin Peaks S3 ep 1 & 2
More than a quarter of a century after its debut, series three of David Lynch’s show is just as baffling, mystical and occasionally deranged… only…
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Twin Peaks S3 ep 8
In a brave and groundbreaking hour of television, Lynch takes the viewer on an incredible journey. Guaranteed to blow your mind.
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David Lynch Shorts Programme
Incorporating Lynch’s earliest forays into filmmaking, this selection of shorter works illustrates the director’s restless creativity, the breadth of his imagination and his ability to…
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Meditation, Creativity, Peace + Introduction
This screening will be introduced by David Hughes, who has been teaching Transcendental Meditation for 40 years and has written many articles on the subject.
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A Place in the Sun
George Stevens’ multi-Oscar winning A Place in the Sun is one of the most powerful and touching of Hollywood romances. The story of how a…
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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me + Introduction
This screening will be introduced by Bren O’Callaghan, Curator at HOME.
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In Cold Blood
Adapting Truman Capote’s true-crime novel about the senseless murder of a family in rural Kansas, In Cold Blood is a grimly authentic American horror story.