David Lynch ANTENNAE
January 16 · 8:00 PM
NOMAD | 129 Van Horne, Montreal
Presented by the David Lynch Foundation Canada
On January 16th, we gather at NOMAD for a singular ANTENNAE ritual in homage to David Lynch.
David Lynch passed away on January 15th, one year ago. His birthday follows on January 20th. Between these two dates lives a space for remembrance, resonance, and transmission. This evening exists there.
For this special ANTENNAE, filmmaker Jason Rodi assembles a long-form cinematic edit, an immersive montage drawn from Lynch’s films, fragments, atmospheres, textures, and dream logic. Not a retrospective. Not a screening. A living current. Images dissolving into one another, unmoored from narrative, projected before a mirror inviting you to enter the world of Lynch.
Against this moving constellation of Lynch works, ANTENNAE will improvise a live soundtrack. Music will unfold inside NOMAD’s allegory-of-the-cave installation: shadows, silhouettes, bodies, and sound interacting with the projected dreams of a man who touched us all, as much with his art as his spirit.
David Lynch showed generations of artists what it means to be free, to trust intuition, to honour mystery, to let images and sounds speak a language unique to cinema, and to Lynch himself. He taught us that darkness and beauty are not opposites, but companions. That dreams are not escapes from reality, but deeper entrances into it.
For Rodi, this night is admittedly personal. Lynch’s work shaped not only his understanding of cinema, but his understanding of self, as an artist, and as a human being. His influence echoes through ANTENNAE: in the permission to create new languages, in the embrace of the unresolved, in the faith that something true will emerge if we dive deep enough, and perhaps "catch the big fish".
We invite you to join us in music, movement, movie magic, and mostly in gratitude.
Read Jason Rodi’s reflection: How David Lynch Made Me a Better Artist, and a Better Human Being
Come as you are.
Stay as long as you need.
Step behind the screen.
Join the signal.
