August 2025

Inland Empire
2006, USA, dir. David Lynch, 180 mins


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David Lynch's challenging, terrifying, labyrinthian, brilliant, protean, and polarizing Inland Empire.

This film captures the disorientation of female performance, the song and dance of being a woman. Released around the dawn of YouTube and shot entirely on digital video, Inland Empire is an incubator for the identity fissures that social media would soon come to amplify.

As much as it is about acting and the trauma of Hollywood, this film feels like a touchstone for navigating the personality-maze that is our contemporary social landscape.