David Lynch’s Los Angeles with Amanda Karkoutly

Places Wonderful and Strange: A Cinemyth Lecture Series on Lynch’s LA & the Mysteries of Twin Peaks

"We live inside a dream" -Twin Peaks

"it's like... it's like I'm having the most beautiful dream... and the most terrible nightmare" - Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

David Lynch's Los Angeles will explore the shadows beneath the sunshine of Los Angeles, a city that embodies Lynch's famous duality: beauty and terror, sunshine and lurking shadows, both the dream and the nightmare.

Amanda Karkoutly of @cahuengapast will present a slideshow of select filming locations from Lynch's works, go through some unique histories of locations, and celebrate parts of Los Angeles that held meaning for one of the city's greatest champions. Lynch's work encourages finding both the terror and the paradise in the mundane, the seemingly innocuous dumpsters and roads of Los Angeles.

Come walk in the footsteps of genius and see how Los Angeles is a city that truly deserves the description of "Lynchian."

Amanda Karkoutly is a local historian and lecturer who writes the CahuengaPast Instagram and newsletter, offering a unique view of history by studying the grand homes of Los Angeles and their former residents, and examining the intersection of architecture, creativity, crime, and metaphysical elements in Hollywood.