Chicago recognizes David Lynch’s legacy with ‘Fix your Hearts’ Party and Film Fest

Gold Coasts The legendary avant-garde filmmaker David Lynch died in January at the age of 78, the loss immediately followed fans of his beloved cult classic work across the country, including here in Chicago.

For the Saira Chambers, based in Logan Square, Lynch’s death came at a time when she already had his pioneering TV series “Twin Peaks” in your thoughts. She had written an SMS with friends to start a group of the series that premiered this month 35 years ago. When President Donald Trump’s second inauguration followed almost immediately from a series of instructions for the executive contracts of anti-trails, she felt inspired to do something beyond the group chat.

“I was wondering what I could possibly do to use this moment, but also to make something unique in all perspectives, whether this is the trans community or the people who have just lost this person who was such an icon for them.

The result is Twin Peaks Wrapt: Fix Your Hearts, a party that takes place on Friday in the International Museum of Surgical Science, 1524 N. Lake Shore Drive. The proceeds of the event will be donated to the transgender law center, a non-profit organization based in Oakland, which is committed to transgender and gender-specific people.

“Absolutely nobody earns money with this event,” said Chambers. “Everyone has their time, their money, everything donated to her.”

The party will contain the topic of “Twin Peaks” by a performance by Lynch, the drag artist Lucy Stoole, which contains music by DJ Dale Cooper, a pop-up by Damn Fine Coffee Bar and First-Come, First Service “Twin Peaks”-Flitzer-Tattoos by David Allen and Ryan Flahery. Bang Bie donated Cherry Pie for the occasion that guests can rinse with thematic cocktails, which was put together by Israel Fernandez III (@Drink312). Swagmatic has also designed a custom enamel pin that is available in exchange for TLC donations.

The name of the event refers to the dialogue from 2017 from “Twin Peaks: The Return”, as Lynch in his role as deputy FBI director Gorden Gorden Cole told his trans colleague Denise Bryson (played by David Duchovny), “When you told Denise, you have all your colleagues, these clown combinations, your hearts or Dadelen or Dadelen or Dadelen Dadelen tells. ”

This line has also spanned the many queer and trans fans of the show, including the filmmaker from Buena Park, Rob Christopher. He remembers that as “Twin Peaks” as a “introverted, confused eight -grader in the completely remote, protected suburbs”.

“It was as if the universe had picked up when I saw the pilot episode of ‘Twin Peaks’ on TV,” Christopher told Block Club. “I never let go of how exciting and scary and wonderful this feeling was.”

Lynch’s work had a big influence on Christopher’s filmography, including his latest short film “My Last Martini”, the Music Box Theater, 3733 N. Southport Ave., on Thursday as part of the film series David Lynch: Moving Time films of the theater. The film contains the actress “Twin Peaks”, the actress Wendy Robie and is based on a short story by Barry Gifford, a frequent Lynch employee.

Christopher writes Lynch’s great queer and trans fan base about the core issues that the filmmaker examined in his entire career: an ubiquitous, always delicate balance of lightness and darkness. They are the same issues that he believes that they swing in many of his fans who feel similarly marginalized, he said.

“One of the core topics of (David Lynchs) work is fear and evil, but he always has love, light and hope,” said Christopher. “I can’t imagine a better way to artistically deal with what it means to be an outsider, which means being trans, what it means to be someone who does not correspond to the norm than what David Lynch did in his work.”