The death of American filmmaker David Lynch, who was also a painter, musician, sound designer, actor, singer and photographer, brings to an end the career of a truly unique figure.In a 2003 interview with The Los Angeles Times,

David Lynch, Twin Peaks and Elephant Man director, dies aged 78 - The brilliant auteur whose unsettling, beautiful dreamscapes skewered the hypocrisy of the American dream has passed away at 78

Lynch was a onetime artist who broke through in the 1970s with the surreal “Eraserhead” and rarely failed to startle and inspire audiences and peers in the following decades.