I shot my first film as a director 26 years ago. It was a documentary for Arte, commissioned by Christoph Jorg, called Microcinema, the word people used back then for everything outside traditional cinema: video, the internet, digital. I was lucky enough to meet David Lynch, who had just announced the launch of DavidLynch.com. A few emails later, we sat down together for a conversation kept separate from the film, his take as a master filmmaker on all these questions. Arte used only seven minutes of the 20 in total that we recorded. I assumed the rest was gone for good, until I found the rushes on a VHS tape, labelled: Diapo Lynch. His answers threw me. In 2000, it was hard to imagine that cinema would go through such sweeping changes. But David saw it coming. The prophetic quality of this conversation makes it both a historical record and a reminder that David Lynch is still with us.

Nicolas Saada