"Lan.guage" was created in the summer of 2010 using documentary footage, Q&A segments with David Lynch from a public lecture given in 2006, recorded sound, and music composed especially for this piece, all with the intention of discussing language - specifically, cinematic language. The piece explores the cinematic language, while investigating the limits within common communication. One's attempt to be understood is often choked, and replaced with icons and gestures -- leading to guesswork and projection in the listener. Examples of these 'cries to be understood' are represented by the animal sounds, the numerous icons, the chiseled gravestones, and David Lynch's own attempt to express his views on the possibilities of cinematic language. Further, the grave markers poke through the earth, expressing an entire lifetime as an icon. The marker represents that life, and communicates, with a worn gesture, to its visitor; meanwhile, the life experience lives beneath the surface in subtext.
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