David Lynch, Iconic American Filmmaker Who Began As An Animator, Has Died

Filmmaker David Lynch has died, age 78.

He began in animation. His experimental scholar movies made on the Pennsylvania Academy of Superb Artwork, like Six Males Getting Sick (Six Occasions) and The Alphabet (1968), had been extensions of Lynch’s high quality artwork, conceived as museum projections. The Grandmother (1970) took his medium right into a hybrid of live-action, animation, painted and sculptured artwork.

Later, after 5 years in manufacturing on the American Movie Institute’s Conservatory for Superior Movie Research, Lynch’s Eraserhead (1977) burst onto the midnight film circuit like a primal scream.