Memory in ‘Lost Highway’

This series presents three lines from the David Lynch film Lost Highway, in which the mysterious appearance of a video tape leads to the following exchange between police officers and Fred and Renée Madison.

Officer: Do you own a video camera?

Fred: No.

Renée: Fred hates them.

Officer: Why is that?

Fred: I like to remember things my way.

Officer: What do you mean by that?

Fred: Not necessarily the way they happened.

Lost Highway (1997)

Material evidence of the past can provide an unwelcome counterpoint to the distortions of memory.

Text becomes harder to read as changes introduced by recording and processing begin to overshadow the information.