David Lynch Releases 2015 Animated Short 'Fire (Pozar)' During Lockdown

Filmmaker David Lynch, staying at home in Los Angeles, has released an animated short titled 'Fire (Pozar)' this week, created in 2015 with composer Marek Zebrowski. The ten-minute film features a wordless, angst-ridden sequence initiated by a tall, emaciated figure lighting a match in a barren landscape, leading to a conflagration countered by black rain and tears from a hollow-eyed figure reminiscent of Edvard Munch's 'The Scream'. Lynch's work is loaded with symbols of primal terror, including fire, a house and tree on a skyline, floating body parts, orifices birthing misshapen monsters, and nature's destructive energy. Zebrowski's score harks back to avant-garde atonal expressionism, contributing to the film's atmosphere of anxiety and unstoppable disaster. The short opens and closes with a scene framed by a proscenium arch, suggesting a cinema or theatre, and includes dancing, antlered anthropoids in a desolate view. Lynch's release comes amid societal mania during lockdown, where the absence of normal social life and reliance on broadcast images parallels the film's nightmarish themes. The film was originally made in 2015 and is now available for viewing.