Write 7 pages with APA style on Style and Influences of the Filmmaker David Lynch. Having written and directed these films, his work reveals a complete focus on his own vision and has developed an almost cult-like following.

Lynch has been quoted to have been highly influenced by the paintings that were done by Francis Bacon. The work of Francis Bacon is fragmented and without a clear narrative. His work was described in a book by Gilles Deleuze that he titled Francis Bacon: logique de la sensation. The work is has a disjointed sense of time and space, with the aspect of fragmentation that defies a logical narrative, but strikes the emotional palate. Lynch has said that “If Bacon had made a movie, where would it have been and where would it have gone? And how would the cinema translate those textures and those spaces?” (Sheen, Davison, and Lynch 140). To see the work of Lynch, that same sense of fragmentation can be observed, seeming to sometimes have no reason, but eventually coming together to have a cohesiveness that admittedly not all viewers will understand.

Lynch’s work is found within the theater of the strange. He devotes great amounts of time within his work to disjointed imagery that has a defining point that is difficult to grasp. In his film Eraserhead, a great number of themes are explored through bizarre and sometimes incomprehensible events. The story surrounds Henry Spencer who, after loosing into the world a strange bit of tissue and strangeness from his mouth, finds that he has impregnated his girlfriend. After a very short pregnancy, she has a mutated child. The film is set in a world that is in urban decay with the close proximity of great machines to emphasize this industrialized deterioration that is representative of the mutation that has developed with this child.

A great number of difficult to understand events and imageries make this film engaging and frustrating. However, it exemplifies the disjointed and fragmentation of the narrative that is suggested by the work of Bacon.&nbsp.