Preserving the fine art of lithography since 1880, the famed French printing studio of Idem Paris, located in the busy Montparnasse section of Paris, France, was built by the French printer, Emile Dufrenoy. Using a small hand-held DV camera, the American director,
David Lynch, documents the dynamic lithographic process, capturing a creative world of art and noisy 19th-century machines on crisp high-definition black-and-white digital video, evoking memories of
Eraserhead (1977).
—Nick Riganas