In a darkly imaginative project between champagne house Dom Pérignon and auteur David Lynch, the filmmaker spent two days in darkness, creating ghostly sets and conjuring up mythical stories of his own. The result: two breathtakingly precious portraits of Dom Pérignon's iconic bottles.
David Lynch, working in a California studio transformed into a darkroom, spent two days contemplating the timeless silhouette of the Dom Pérignon bottle. In those 48 hours, he invented stories, created sets and cobbled together strange theatrical machinery - and took many, many photos. In the end, this massive trove was culled to just two precious images, a distillation, if you like, of his journey into Dom Pérignon.
Dom Pérignon Blanc 2000. Photographed by David Lynch
Dom Pérignon Rosé 2000. Photographed by David Lynch
One look at the two selected images will give you an idea of the intensity behind the man's artistic pursuit. The first depicts the iconic Dom Pérignon bottle and the other the bold Dom Pérignon Rosé. Under the eye of Lynch's camera, the bottles are subsumed into a fantastical, dreamlike landscape, into which the viewer is pulled into, as if drawn by a long tracking shot.
In the notes provided by the champagne house, the viewer is invited to imagine "ghostly skyscrapers in the middle distance, their uncertain outlines standing amid an urban twilight lit by crepuscular flares. In the far distance a sci-fi underworld, lit here and there by flashes of light, seems suspended in a biotopic night."
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