IDEM PARIS by DAVID LYNCH

Film by David Lynch
Idem Paris fine art printshop
master printers:
Christian Charpin
Khindelvert Em
Patrick Pramil
Phaythoune Soukaloun
edited by Noriko Miyakawa
mixed by Dean Hurley
copyright David Lynch 2012
www.idemparis.com/
www.itemeditions.com/catalogue...

[@XercesandAlexander]

I love that they released the film on youtube. David Lynch is a true artist. There's nothing wrong with making a living doing what you do. But time and time again David has shown that he does his work for himself and to share it with people.

[@nickandroff]

Idem printing studio has a unique, very special mood, and it is so conducive to creating. Patrice has the greatest attitude for all the artists and he creates this space of freedom and this joy of creating. It's so beautiful! And I think the place is very important-in other wors, the same stone could be moved to another place, and I think that the work that comes out would be different. It's a combination of the stone, the place, the people, this mood, and out comes these certain ideas. ~D.Lynch

[@stevemisiaszek1524]

It's not just the beautiful artwork DL is showing here but the genius behind the intricate 19th Century machinery which is an art in itself. The black and white footage adding to a bygone era.

[@JayLangly]

Lynch has always loved manual machines like this

[@nickandroff]

Hervé Chandès from the Fondation Cartier brought me (Lynch) over to Idem and introduced me to Patrice Forest. I see this incredible place, and I get the opportunity to work there. And this was like a dream! It just opened up this brand-new world of the lithography and the magic of lithography, the magic of the stones. And it was a great, great thing! This thing of lithography, this channel of lithography opened up and a bunch of ideas came flowing out and it led to about a hundred lithographs.

[@beyondvger3682]

These guys really know what they're doing and they make it look easy which I'm sure it's not. Years and years of practice. Incredible relationship with their machines.

[@zippymufo9765]

I've worked on letterpresses before, more modern ones, but the general mechanics are the same. There's a few hundred separate details to address to make that perfect print. These people are artists in their own right.

[@beyondvger3682]

@@zippymufo9765 👍

[@Jamie7-w]

Nice contrast and textures in sight and sound.

[@djouletube]

Du Lynch tout craché ! Déjà ce superbe noir et blanc... et cette alliance entre l'homme et la machine qu'on retrouve beaucoup dans son travail ( Eraserhead, l'Angleterre victorienne d'Elephant Man, et beaucoup de ses photographies ). J'adore !

[@mawot_oficial]

I love the sounds of machines here

[@jrlakin370]

Amazing sounds

[@KT88gs]

A great machine making great art!

[@MayaState]

That was amazing.

[@bergmn_]

David Lynch being David Lynch

[@StepSoftlyGhost]

Yet another Lynch/Hurley collaboration. :) Great to see he still wants to be behind the camera rather than just a microphone these days. Those prints look beautiful too. Nice film.

[@gorotan0315]

原田マハさんのロマンシエよりきました。 idemのこの匂い、音を実際に感じてみたくなりますね。いつかパリに行ってみたい。

[@9502495155]

while watching this iam sencing the paint smell

[@Ferocious_Imbecile]

It would be an ink smell actually, with perhaps some acrid odor of acids used to etch the printing plates and lithographic stones.

[@claudiapecol007]

incredible work! :)

[@andrewlkozar]

Wonderful video!

[@FreeKanal]

No sex no drugs no child abuse people will be sad :) I AM NOT ! good work David !

[@irwinisidro]

This reminds me of The Elephant Man when they showed machines at work :)

[@emy1111]

what a monster of a machine

[@junglered666]

Oh. Oh dear me. I am spent.

[@mimoooo]

PLOT: cluck click fssss clack

[@matoss84]

hello, where i can buy her drawing please?

[@Ferocious_Imbecile]

But the big unanswered question here is what camera did he use for this? I'm guessing it was the ARRI Amiras. They were apparently around in 2013 when this was made. This video's image quality certainly has the rich somewhat oily india ink shadows that made it Lynch's favorite for recording Twin Peaks season 3. But I don't know that for sure. I'm just speculating.

[@tunzlover1682]

Originally steam powered?

[@BillRitchie]

Does the title say, "Man and woman in burning car"? I see the source of AI here.

[@dolltime5615]

🍒

[@dougg1165]

Early rotogravure?

[@KaraokeNig]

Semi-automatic litho press, i believe.

[@Varttino]

amazing how can we make better stuff on a little printer machine, that all this people and hard work

[@Ferocious_Imbecile]

"I went to Paris for the installation, and the second day I was there Hervé said, “I want to show you this place,” and I met Patrice [Forest] and saw Idem. I walked in and smelled that printer’s ink, and I caught the mood and the vibe of that place and instantly fell deeply in love. Patrice said, “Would you like to do a lithograph?” and I said, “Do birds fly?” Because of piracy, digital images become cheaper and cheaper, and they’re easy to steal and share. A lithograph is something you can have, though, and when you have it you see the beauty of the paper and you smell the ink. It’s so different from a digital image" David Lynch, Room To Dream, P. 415

[@jonathyhiggiams]

That is not a little printer machine. It’s a large direct litho Press.

[@bayl593]

Varttino, you are clueless and obviously miss the whole point of this clip. Your desktop printer doesn't help you "MAKE" anything really.