{"id":29363,"date":"2024-10-11T21:55:03","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T18:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/message2man.com\/?p=29363"},"modified":"2025-09-25T13:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T10:30:12","slug":"2024-twin-peaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/message2man.com\/en\/2024-twin-peaks\/","title":{"rendered":"About the programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/message2man.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2024-twin-peaks-banner-en.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-sp-medium wp-image-29369\" src=\"https:\/\/message2man.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2024-twin-peaks-banner-en-900x475.jpg\" alt=\"About the programme\" width=\"900\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/message2man.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2024-twin-peaks-banner-en-900x475.jpg 900w, https:\/\/message2man.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2024-twin-peaks-banner-en-768x405.jpg 768w, https:\/\/message2man.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2024-twin-peaks-banner-en-600x316.jpg 600w, https:\/\/message2man.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2024-twin-peaks-banner-en-1200x633.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/message2man.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2024-twin-peaks-banner-en.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The name of\u00a0Message to\u00a0Man Film Festival\u2019s new programme is\u00a0inspired by\u00a0David Lynch\u2019s cult classic, which introduced a\u00a0surrealist concept of\u00a0a\u00a0shifted reality that was groundbreaking for the late 20th century. The show anticipated much of\u00a0modern life and remains relevant to\u00a0this day.<\/p>\n<p>The five films featured in\u00a0the programme reflect cinema\u2019s dual nature. On\u00a0the one hand, it\u00a0is\u00a0becoming increasingly realistic: this near-documentary authenticity is\u00a0felt in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/message2man.com\/en\/films\/mmxx\/\"><em>MMXX<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0Romania\u2019s Cristi Puiu and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/message2man.com\/en\/films\/all-we-imagine-as-light\/\"><em>All We\u00a0Imagine as\u00a0Light<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0India\u2019s Payal Kapadia and Bakur Bakuradze (<a href=\"https:\/\/message2man.com\/en\/films\/sneg-v-moem-dvore\/\"><em>Snowflakes<\/em>\u00a0<em>in<\/em>\u00a0<em>My<\/em>\u00a0<em>Yard<\/em><\/a>). On\u00a0the other hand, there is\u00a0the absurdist world in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/message2man.com\/en\/films\/universal-language\/\"><em>Universal Language<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0Canadian filmmaker Matthew Rankin and the hypnotically shifted\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/message2man.com\/en\/films\/shambhala\/\"><em>Shambhala<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0Nepalese director Min Bahadur Bham.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, more often than not, documentary realism and surreal hypnosis go\u00a0hand in\u00a0hand, creating films that, as\u00a0one entry in\u00a0the programme describes, are \u00abcomedies of\u00a0disorientation set somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg.\u00bb<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Twin Peaks<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0is\u00a0as\u00a0much about the layering of\u00a0reality, where \u00abeverything is\u00a0ambiguous,\u00bb as\u00a0it\u00a0is\u00a0about the search for a\u00a0sublime, perfect style that captivates the most original cinematic talents of\u00a0today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The name of\u00a0Message to\u00a0Man Film Festival\u2019s new programme is\u00a0inspired by\u00a0David Lynch\u2019s cult classic, which introduced a\u00a0surrealist concept of\u00a0a\u00a0shifted reality that was groundbreaking for the late 20th century. The show anticipated&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"annum":[90],"class_list":["post-29363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-curator-text","annum-90"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/message2man.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/message2man.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/message2man.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/message2man.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/message2man.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29363"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/message2man.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29373,"href":"https:\/\/message2man.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29363\/revisions\/29373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/message2man.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/message2man.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/message2man.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/message2man.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29363"},{"taxonomy":"annum","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/message2man.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/annum?post=29363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}