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Weird on Top: A Discussion of David Lynch
by Alejandra Gonzalez and Rob DiCristino
Week Three: Lost Highway
Note: This conversation will spoil Lost Highway.
Rob: Welcome back to Weird on Top, your biweekly David Lynch bonanza. I'm Rob DiCristino.
Alejandra: And I'm Alejandra Gonzalez.
Rob: This week, we're looking at Lost Highway, Lynch's 1997 neo-noir co-written with Wild at Heart novelist Barry Gifford. Lost Highway is...complicated. It stars Bill Pullman as Fred Madison, a night club saxophonist who lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Renee (Patricia Arquette). One day, Fred receives a strange message on his intercom: "Dick Laurent is dead." Fred doesn't know Dick Laurent or why he died, and things get even stranger when he and Renee begin receiving grainy footage of their home on unmarked VHS tapes. This triggers a series of bizarre dreams, including one in which Fred sees his wife as The Mystery Man (the unfortunately-in-this-movie Robert Blake), a pale, semi-human being whose harassment culminates in a video of Fred killing and eating Renee. Fred is then sent to prison for her murder.
Lost Highway is ALSO about Pete Dayton (Balthazar Getty), a young auto mechanic who wakes up in Fred's cell with no memory of how he got there. Having zero clue who he is or any logical reason to hold him, the prison releases Pete into the custody of his parents (Gary Busey and Lucy Butler) and girlfriend (Natasha Gregson Wagner). He soon returns to work (for Arnie, awesomely and randomly played by Richard Pryor) and attracts the attention of local gangster Mr. Eddy (Robert Loggia). Mr. Eddy admires Pete's skill with a wrench, and Pete admires Mr. Eddy's mistress, Alice Wakefield (also Arquette). Wrapped up in a dangerous affair and hoping to score enough cash to escape Mr. Eddy's grasp, Pete and Alice hatch a scheme to rob local party boy Andy (Michael Massee) and skip town. It does not go well.
Ale, since your boy Trent Reznor produced Lost Highway's soundtrack, I have no choice but to let you begin with your thoughts on the film.
Alejandra: So, the soundtrack is absolutely my favorite part of Lost Highway and absolutely has nothing (everything) to do with the fact that Trent Reznor was involved, but I always save the best for last. I actually wanted to start by confessing that I was actually dreading having to revisit Lost Highway, and even more so having to write about it. Not because I don't really love it, but because I am incredibly intimidated by it since it's one of Lynch's films that I like the most but identify with and understand the least. How do I justify that, especially when we're talking about one of the most theorized and analyzed filmmakers I can think of? The more and more I tried to come up with something smart to say about this movie to prove that I understood it, the less I cared about understanding it and began to care about appreciating it and letting it take me wherever the hell it wanted. Only then was I able to develop a more streamlined set of thoughts about it.
So, Lost Highway — a cold, abysmal nightmare that has been unanimously deemed a rough draft to Lynch's magnum opus, Mulholland Drive. Lost Highway gets a lot of mixed criticism, often being judged for being frigid and lacking humanity of any sort. All of the characters are pretty unlikeable, and I do agree that when being compared to Mulholland Drive, it lacks the melancholic, yearning kind of emptiness that the latter achieves and just feels pretty hollow. In the same vein, I think that's what draws me to it so much. I think it captures the feeling of nothingness and resentment that comes with being so dissatisfied in life and in one's relationships extremely well. I'll expand shortly, but first I want to know how you feel about Lost Highway.
Rob: I think we're pretty close on this one. I'll just be honest here and say that Lost Highway is a tough sit. We talked about Eraserhead being a headache and something we appreciate more than we actually like, and (for me) Lost Highway probably fits more into that category than anything else in Lynch's catalog. It's angry and claustrophobic; it it has a '90s energy that hasn't aged all that well. This makes sense, like you said: As the lore goes, Lynch was frustrated in his personal and professional relationships and anxious to make a statement after the critical dismissal of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (his last theatrical release). He's at a pivot point in his career, and he's searching for something. That comes across loud and clear. I mean, I like the movie, don't get me wrong, but it's absolutely a journey into the soul of a man at an emotional crossroads. He's on his back foot, and it shows.
That being said, Lost Highway sports some incredible performances, most notably from Patricia Arquette in her double role. She's an absolutely captivating femme fatale, sexy and severe enough to sell the mystery/noir tone, but accessible and human enough to empathize with in the more chaotic moments. You can really tell how game she is to work with Lynch and how much ownership she's willing to take over such a bizarre and challenging story. Pullman and Getty are solid, and there's a weirdy-normal Gary Busey performance, to boot! It's so satisfying to see big-name actors play bit parts just because they want to act for David Lynch.
Alejandra: I really agree with everything you said about the performances. I'm always pretty amazed at how well some actors can perform in Lynch's stuff considering that so many times they're being asked to play more than one person/versions of a person. I think the doppelganger thing is most notable in Mulholland Drive, but I especially love it here and as executed by Kyle Maclachlan in Twin Peaks: The Return. I'm actually glad you brought up the performances because I feel that the smaller pieces of Lost Highway's make up are what make it so great. I think if we're judging the film's technical qualities, it is one of Lynch's best in terms of how it looks and sounds. For instance, I love everything about Fred and Rene's house. How minimally furnished it is really speaks to the fact that this is not to be mistaken for a home. This space is empty and barren, much like the discontented life Fred leads and like his relationship to Rene. I also don't know what this means, but it reminded me a lot of Dorothy's apartment in Blue Velvet, down to the exact color of the walls. Am I reaching?
Rob: Not at all. It's definitely a pretty consistent Lynch motif, but I didn't even pick up on this similarity with Blue Velvet until you showed me. It's pretty remarkable.
Alejandra: Which leads me to what I am most excited to talk about — one of the best film soundtracks of all time, and a hill I am willing to die on. Imagining Trent and Lynch working on this together fills me with all the warmth that this movie is supposed to lack. I love that Lost Highway went with something more industrial leaning with its music, and I'm pretty sure it was just a product of the decade but it works unbelievably well. I've always described bands like Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson to be cold and metallic sounding (I mean that in the best way), so it perfectly compliments how this movie feels. Funny enough, my favorite song on the soundtrack isn't even a Nine Inch Nails song, and is actually the Smashing Pumpkins song. What's yours?
Rob: While I'm not as high on this style of music as you are, I definitely agree that it suits and energizes Lost Highway in a unique way. I'm a pretty big fan of Manson's "I Put a Spell On You" cover.
Alejandra: Also, This soundtrack is so different from the jazzy and ambiently dreamy sounds of Lynch's previous work and it makes perfect sense. Everything he made before this was a nightmare wrapped up in a dream's clothing— the whimsical sights of an immaculate small town that were much darker under the surface. Lost Highway never does that, and it is a total icy nightmare from the get go.
Rob: Speaking of which, let's get into some Lynchian semiotics! As you said, Lost Highway is typically seen as a spiritual predecessor to Mulholland Drive, and I think it's through that lens that we can find the root of what Lynch and Gifford are getting at. Like Mulholland, Lost Highway seems to use a bisected story structure to distinguish between who a person is (Pullman) and who they see themselves as or want to be (Getty). Unlike Diane in Mulholland, though, Fred seems to have some control — or at least awareness — of his changing identity. He tells a detective that he likes "to remember things [his] own way, not necessarily the way they happened," and the shifts into and out of the "Pete" identity are a central part of the narrative. Lynch has said that Lost Highway was inspired in part by the O.J. Simpson murders, a situation in which a man kills two people and just goes on living, lying about it even to himself: "How does the mind protect itself from that knowledge and go on?"
Two other Mulholland Drive analogs are found in the characters and structure. Lynch often personifies Chaos or Fate with an idiosyncratic jester type (think The Man Behind Winky's or The Man From Another Place), a character who guides the lead along their path to enlightenment or ruin. Here, we have one of his most effective examples: Robert Blake's Mystery Man, a creature who seems to be alternately stalking and supporting Fred. The Mystery Man can be in two places at once, which (aside from being creepy as hell) seems to foreshadow the reveal of Fred being the one on the intercom saying "Dick Laurent is dead" to himself. There's the structural curiosity. The term "Mobius strip" is thrown around a lot in discourse about Lost Highway, and it's a fairly accurate description. Trouble is — and this is the thing I've already said I love most about Lynch's work — the explanation is rarely the reward. Things don't exactly coalesce into a logical structure at the end, so there's still a ton open to interpretation.
Alejandra: Absolutely! I used to watch hours upon hours of videos trying to analyze Lynch's work but it mainly frustrated me and tainted my experience watching his stuff. To me, Lost Highway is actually pretty straight forward when we strip it of...mostly everything. We talked about this with Blue Velvet! The movie is about a man so unfulfilled in his life and his relationship that it builds such an intense resentment which festers until he does something unspeakable. The second half of the film, where we are with Pete, is a dissociative fantasy of Fred's and it reminds me even more of Blue Velvet in that way. The problems that Pete faces can be taken as Fred's insecurities permeating his fantasies, as they are so deep rooted that they become inescapable.
Rob: With such complex and thoughtful storytelling, I'm left to wonder what it is about Lost Highway that I find so grating and unsatisfying. It's a classic Lynch mind-fuck, for sure, but so are Fire Walk with Me and Mulholland Drive. That's not what it is. I think it might be that — for all the dirty, dirty sex — there's not a ton of love. It's a movie about denial and paranoia made by someone who was clearly resentful and distrusting of his fellow humans at that point in his life. There's a jarring coldness to the whole thing that makes me feel like I'm not wanted, that the movie is angry at me and I just have to sit and take it. And again, that's not really a technical strike against Lost Highway. Lynch is working something out through his art, something very specific, and sometimes you have to be in the right headspace to connect with it.
Alejandra: I can really understand that. I honestly have a hard time even putting into words why I like this one so much and wonder if I even know why myself. I don't typically like movies that are so cynical as this is, but for whatever reason I love the way Lost Highway feels. I think it's interesting how sexy it is despite its enormous lack of intimacy, as you said. I also think it is wildly different from most of Lynch's other stuff while also maintaining so many Lynchian trademarks and themes. I've decided that I could linger on it forever and I will probably never put my finger on why I love where Lost Highway takes me, but I would let it take me there again. And again. And Again.
Rob: I think that's great! Some things are best left felt about rather than thought about. I'll keep revisiting it, certainly, and maybe I'll grow more attached to it as time goes on.
After a heavy first few weeks, we're going to lighten things up next time with The Straight Story, Lynch's Disney-produced, Oscar-nominated 1999 film. It stars Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, and The Great Harry Dean Stanton. It's about a man and his tractor, and it's a delight. Until next time, remember: This world is wild at heart…
Alejandra: And weird on top.
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Labels: 2018 scary movie month, 90s horror movies, bill pullman, david lynch, lost highway, patricia arquette, rob dicristino, weird on top
Richard Tasker October 24, 2018 at 3:16 PM
Another excellent Lynch retrospective and I must say that you both, especially you Alejandra should check out the 1943 short "Meshes Of The Afternoon" which seems a real inspiration on Lost Highway and is 14 minutes well spent! :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llbIME-2v2M
Rob DiCristino October 24, 2018 at 6:21 PM
This is great! Thanks for the suggestion. I can definitely see Lynch drawing inspiration.
Richard Tasker October 25, 2018 at 3:18 AM
Glad you liked it!


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Q: How to get a backref on Association Object - ie user.follows() and user.followers() I'm trying to create an association object UserRelationship which defines a 'follow' relationship between User and User.
class UserRelationship(db.Model):
    id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True)
    follows_id = db.Column(db.Integer, db.ForeignKey('user.id'))
    follower_id = db.Column(db.Integer, db.ForeignKey('user.id'))
    follows = db.relationship("User", foreign_keys=[follows_id])
    follower = db.relationship("User", foreign_keys=[follower_id])
    bank = db.Column(db.Float)

    def __repr__(self):
        return f'{self.follower.username} follows {self.follows.username} with {self.bank}'

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    follows = db.relationship('UserRelationship',
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    def follow(self, user, bank):
        if not self.is_following(user):
            new_follow = UserRelationship(bank=bank)
            new_follow.follows = user
            self.follows.append(new_follow)
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            return new_follow

    def unfollow(self, user):
        if self.is_following(user):
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            return self.follows.all()

    def is_following(self, user):
        return self.follows.filter(
            UserRelationship.follows == user).count() > 0

This produces expected results in the shell:
joe=User(username='joe')
paul=User(username='paul')
phil=User(username='phil')

phil.follow(joe,bank=123)
[phil follows joe with 123]

So when I user User.follows I get taken to a UserRelationship object, which I can query to get all the people THAT user follows. I get that. What I can't understand is how I can get User.followers to work. What I'd like is a query (or list) or User.followers. The backref command doesn't work = typing 'phil.followers' into console produces
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'User' object has no attribute 'followers'

I could write a function perhaps? But I'm not entirely sure what I'd write to query the database to get a list of Users who all follow a particular user.

A: I figured this out - it was actually pretty simple:
    def followers(self):
        return UserRelationship.query.filter_by(follows=self).all()

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Dean Prof. Eli Biham gave an interview on the the Academic Ranking of World Universities for 2013 which graded for the second time in a row the Technion in the field of computer science in the 18th place in the world for the second time in a row.
Full Interview (Approx. min 35).


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Implement systems that enable you to ultimately expand your capacity overall.
…which is exactly what Simplified Organization: Learn to Love What Must Be Done is all about.
Mornings often have a lot of moving pieces and we have to get not only ourselves up and moving, but everyone else. It can be hard to fit in a decent breakfast, but it helps oh-so-much.
While the older kids were at piano lessons, I took the younger two to the park. It was windy, but it was sunny – and I want to get the sun while I still can! I added 3,000 steps to my count and read a chapter of my book while they played. It was perfect.
Brandy has a great article on how sunshine can help when you feel low-energy.
If you're completely honest, you feel like you're losing control. And that feels lousy. Your inbox is overflowing. You're not fulfilled in your work. You find yourself moving from problem to problem all day long.
Hm. What if we hit February burnout (or even September burnout) because we live multiple of these "warning signs" just as a matter of course? The article is for people working a job or building a business, but if you look past his examples and to what he's saying, it certainly applies to anyone (including mothers) with multiple responsibilities on her plate.
Much as I would love to glide through our front door and enter a Norman Rockwell painting, most days my home more closely resembles a Jackson Pollock train wreck.
Jeanne has 8 things to keep in mind for us as homemakers. Guess what? Having a restful homes means we have to rest ourselves and provide rest for others. Who would have thought?
I believe in working hard to make things happen, with the understanding that some things can't be forced. You can't make those things happen: you can only let them happen.
The work is ours. The results are God's.
When we go about our day, we tell ourselves a story about what's happening – and at the center of that narrative is a single person. Ourselves.
The story is actually about Jesus, not us. That might not be Babauta's message, but he's close to a truth that we can take all the way home.


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Armenia leader sends condolences to family of George H.W. Bush
PanARMENIAN.Net - President Armen Sarkissian has sent a letter of condolences to the family of former U.S. President George H.W. Bush over his death on November 30.
"One cannot but appreciate his great contribution to the establishment of mutual understanding and dialogue between peoples," Sarkissian said.
"He went to great lengths to make our troubled world a better and safer environment, while his wisdom and political courage helped him achieve success in this regard."
"I have bright memories of our personal meetings in Texas, London and elsewhere," Sarkissian said adding that Armenians too remember the 41st President of the United States.
Bush died at age 94 in Houston.
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62% of Armenians have a positive image of the European Union (EU), compared to 48% in 2018, the survey says.
Armenia's government OKs raising minimum wage by 24%
The government on Thursday, June 27 approved a draft law on raising minimum wage in Armenia by 23.6%
Armenia's population expected to dwindle to roughly 2 mln in 2100: UN
Armenia's population will dwindle to a little more than 2 million in 2100 from today's almost three million.
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Nikol Pashinyan has said that Armenia badly needs a truly independent and impartial judicial system.
Armenia eco-camps entice more and more foreign travelers
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Armenia looks to ban plastic bags from 2022
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RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Thousands gathered at Christmas Eve worship services across the Triangle.
Kate Sanyer said it's Christmas Eve tradition to go to mass.
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G-Dragon Estimated To Make $1 Million USD From His Art Exhibition
He's making bank even while serving in the military.
G-Dragon, who is still fulfilling his military duties, had announced his exhibition for his own artworks. The exhibition opened in Taiwan, which will be held until August 18. It will then make its way to Singapore, Shanghai, Bangkok, Indonesia, Jakarta, and Hong Kong.
The exhibition's tickets are being sold for 300 TWD (~$10 USD), with fans from all over the world visiting to see his works. G-Dragon had created digital and acrylic prints of the works that he created before he enlisted. Each of his artworks is being sold from around $518 to $218 USD each. All of the prints are expected to be sold, which means he will make about 1.278 billion won (~$1.05 million USD).
However, netizens have begun to criticize G-Dragon for pursuing profitable business while still active as an enlisted soldier. He is expected to be discharged from the military on October 26.
The Department Of Defense made a statement regarding whether it was allowed for G-Dragon to make commercial profit while serving his military duties. They explained that it won't be a problem if G-Dragon was only a part of it before he enlisted and is not directly involved with the profits from the exhibition itself.
Profits earned from royalties that come from works created before his enlistment aren't recognized as wrongful commercial activity.
However, if the party is directly or indirectly participating in the process of producing a profit from the exhibition, this can be regarded as a commercial activity.
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The focus has turned to whether G-Dragon had taken part in producing the exhibition or if only his works from before his enlistment were simply taken for reproduction. However, the exhibition's production list included 'UNWRAPP', a subsidiary from G-Dragon's personal brand, PEACEMINUSONE.
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Dacia has revealed the UK's most affordable estate car will cost from £6995 when it is launched in July – giving it an unbeatable space-to-price ratio.
The new Logan MCV boasts a 573-litre boot with the seats up: that's virtually as large as a Volvo V70. Yet it also costs less than a VW Up – and three and a half times less than the cheapest Volvo V70.
Seats down, space extends to 1518 litres. The opening is more than a metre wide too, with 787mm from base to roofline. It should be practical enough then – even if the base engine might not have the guts to quite cope with it.
The £6995 tag buys you a 1.2-litre 75hp engine that will be familiar to drivers of the outgoing Renault Clio. It's hardly the fastest thing in the world and claimed economy of 48.7mpg is likely to be a high water mark, given how you may have to drive it.
Much better is the 0.9-litre TCe 90 three-cylinder petrol, a delight of an engine that has the added bonus of turbocharged torque, too. Just one problem – that starts at £8395, rather than £6995. But it does average 56.5mpg and, with CO2 emissions of 116g/km, also comes in under the new 130g/km CO2 company car writing down allowance barrier.
The 135g/km entry car doesn't.
Or there's a 90hp 1.5-litre dCi diesel, with much more torque still, and 74.3mpg fuel economy (along with free road tax courtesy of 99g/km CO2 emissions). That starts at £9395.
Dacia offers three trim lines with the Logan MCV, in line with other models: Access, Ambiance and Laureate. Only the meek 1.2-litre engine comes in Access trim, and it's pretty basic: no stereo, no wheel trims, no electric windows (it does have body-colour bumpers though, unlike the £5995 Sandero Access).
Ambiance adds all this plus Bluetooth, remove central locking and posher interior trim. Impressively, Laureate trim (costing from £8995 with that 1.2-litre motor) is expected to sell best: it adds air con, electric door mirrors, cruise control and alloys.
You can even get sat nav on the Laureate, for just £250.
Keen to bag the UK's cheapest estate? Get in fast, then: although test drives don't start until July, orders can be placed from today – and with a lead time of a couple of months, you should act fast if you're to steal a march on other buyers.
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Sweden's central bank performed a dramatic U-turn on Thursday as it raised interest rates, said it would shrink its balance sheet and warned of more increases to come as it belatedly responded to surging inflation.
The Riksbank reversed the stance it had adopted at its previous meeting in February, when it said it would only lift interest rates from zero towards the end of 2024. On Thursday, the bank raised its main repurchase rate to 0.25 per cent and forecast that rates were likely to reach 1 per cent by the end of the year.
Sweden's central bank has been surprised by the strength of inflation, but it forecast prices would increase 5.5 per cent this year, well above its previous forecast of 2.9 per cent and its target of 2 per cent.
"Inflation has risen to the highest level since the 1990s and will be high for some time. To counteract the high inflation from becoming entrenched in price and wage-setting, the executive board has decided to raise the repo rate," the Riksbank said in a statement.
The central bank has long struggled with its inflation mandate, raising rates in 2010 only to have to cut them to below zero afterwards, a move often cited as a cautionary tale against monetary tightening by the US Federal Reserve.
It then followed with a five-year experiment with negative rates, ending only in December 2019 after parts of the financial industry complained that it was hitting profits.
Coming out of the Covid-19 pandemic and with the addition of energy and food price shocks from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the Riksbank stood out with its call in February to keep rates at zero for years to come even as other central banks tightened policy. It has now joined the global consensus in tightening policy to counteract rising inflation.
The Swedish central bank warned that it was "more uncertain than usual" about how inflation would behave in the coming months and added that "the risk outlook . . . is on the upside", meaning rates could be higher than forecast.
"The Riksbank finally bowed to economic logic . . . and today's announcement completes a remarkable U-turn from the Bank's thus-far decidedly dovish stance," said David Oxley, senior Europe economist at Capital Economics.
The Riksbank also said that it would slow the pace of its asset purchases in the second half of the year, meaning its balance sheet would start to shrink. It will buy SKr37bn ($3.6bn) of bonds in the second half of the year, half the level of the first six months.
Sweden's growth is expected to slow considerably at the same time that inflation rises, with GDP now forecast at 2.8 per cent for this year and 1.4 per cent for 2023, both lower than February's forecasts of 3.6 and 2 per cent, respectively.
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Home Bollywood I want my films to initiate social change: Pakistan's Oscar winner
I want my films to initiate social change: Pakistan's Oscar winner
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
By Radhika Bhirani
New Delhi– A proud winner of two Oscars, Pakistan's celebrated filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy says for her a "bigger accomplishment" is the fact that her films prompt dialogue for social change.
Her latest Academy Award winning movie "A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness" — on honour killings in Pakistan — which won laurels in the Documentary (Short Subject) category at the prestigious gala last month, turned out to be a wake-up call for the Pakistan government.
As the film made headlines across the globe with its Academy Award nomination, and later win, it was screened for the country's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who endorsed his support in helping to end honour killings in the country.
"He asked his team to redraft laws on honour killings to help ensure that perpetrators are punished and victims are protected. The possibility of having new legislation that protects the women of Pakistan reaffirms my belief that this form of storytelling is enough to bring about change," Obaid-Chinoy told IANS in an interview from Karachi.
The filmmaker believes that films have "a way of revealing the core of an issue that might otherwise be seen as a mere headline or statistic".
"I want my films to serve as vessels of information that connect audiences, prompt dialogue, and initiate social change. I view my films as active stories that come to life when they are viewed and discussed – the film is often times just the first step in a larger and fruitful conversation.
"I have always maintained that for me, the biggest accomplishment is when my films are used by non-profits and activists to create social awareness and raise funds for marginalised individuals," said the documentary maker, who first won the Oscar for her 2012 movie "Saving Face" on women acid attack victims.
Obaid-Chinoy pointed out how a number of the refugees featured in her film "Iraq: The Lost Generation" — about Iraqi refugees in Syria and Jordan — were granted asylum afterwards; and how her film "City of Guilt", which focussed on clandestine abortions in the Philippines, was picked up by a person who lobbied the government for increased access to contraceptives for women.
Yet, she felt she was "the dark horse" at the Oscars this year.
"I wasn't expecting to win – but it felt great to win because of the issue we were highlighting."
While Pakistan is re-establishing its film industry, in that scenario, what does it mean to be bringing back home an Oscar for the second time?
"The Pakistani film industry is beginning to slowly stand on its own two feet. Filmmakers are experimenting with style and form and we are slowly starting to carve out a place for ourselves in the international sphere.
"Bringing home an Oscar is testament to the fact that it doesn't matter where you come from, if you do good work it will be appreciated worldwide – and there is no lack of talent in Pakistan." (IANS)
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As RGD President Lionel Gadoury stated in his interview with the Star, the Association continues to encourage the federal government to set up a steering committee and a proper selection process for a professional logo.
In the meantime, RGD has partnered with the GDC and SDGQ in support of a petition requesting the government work with professional industry associations to remedy this situation.
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