THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

Mulholland Drive is a magical street, and many people feel that when they drive on it at night.  It twists and turns and Hollywood is on one side and the Valley is on the other and you kind of get lost on it.  It’s an old road, too, and there’s a mood to it, and you can feel that many people from the golden age of Hollywood drove on that road.  It’s really got a history, and if you’re in Los Angeles long enough you start hearing stories about things that have happened on it that get your mind going.

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The plot of Mulholland Drive is complex, but it makes sense in light of the fact that life doesn’t unfold in a clear, straight line.  All of us flicker in and out of memories, fantasies, desires, and dreams of the future as we move through what’s actually happening around us over the course of a day.  These zones of the mind bleed in and out of one another, and Mulholland Drive has a fluid logic that reflects these multiple levels of awareness.

Lynch/Dream, 2018