So ideas start coming along. Lynch has always liked that kick of the imagination. After Six Figures , Lynch made a four-minute animation titled The Alphabet , followed in 1970 by The Grandmother , which mixes animation and live action. Each of these films boasts the unusual events and bizarre, alienated characters that we know from Lynch's more famous films, including Eraserhead , Wild at Heart and Lost Highway , all of which have storylines that are at best elliptical, and creepy, violent happenings that leave your head spinning. Lynch has also always railed against the pacifying effects of a safer cinema, one that placates and appeases its audience, and with his new animation, he seems delighted to be back in a place without constraints, in terms of both budget and a distributor's demands.
Sound plays a big role in that, but even silently they still work.
And that was all it took. Even though he might not yet get all the technical specs of either his new digital tools or the sprawling, nebulous Internet, Lynch knows a thing or two about freedom, and the rewards offered by tinkering. It could lead to a feature film, but maybe not. It's all about ideas and being able to realize them, and it may be just little fragments, but the Internet is kind of good for little fragments, and these may open up other worlds. When asked how the Internet differs from television, a medium he knows very well thanks to his critically acclaimed series Twin Peaks , Lynch is succinct.