Aris Dimokisis

Back when everyone wanted Lynch to finally explain “Twin Peaks”, he answered with a prequel that only multiplies the questions, following Laura Palmer through the last seven days of her life. The film some fans first dismissed is now one many would follow into the Black Lodge. — David Lynch’s prequel to his own cult series begins in a small town in the Pacific Northwest. The FBI agent sent there to investigate the murder of a young woman, Teresa Banks, finds nothing and then vanishes himself. A year later, in nearby Twin Peaks, homecoming queen Laura Palmer has two boyfriends, a secret and seven days left to live. — Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 1992

Unique in the domestic artistic context and catalytically influential on successive generations of musicians, Lena Platonos, the living history of the Greek electronic music scene, is finally getting the documentary she deserves. — The work of Lena Platonos, an important figure in the Greek electronic scene with radical works that proved ahead of their time, is increasingly being heard internationally thanks to the re-release of her records and the remixes of her songs. With the help of collaborators, friends and current Greek and international artists, the film returns to the time when these revolutionary records were created.

Here is everything we love David Lynch for: a man convicted of a murder he can’t remember becomes someone else entirely, in what may be a new life or only a new dream. Patricia Arquette plays a double role, Angelo Badalamenti supplies the music, and it’s hard to imagine anything more Lynchian. — Videotapes start turning up on the doorstep of a jazz saxophonist and his wife, filmed inside their house while they slept. Before long he’s convicted of killing her, a murder he has no memory of, and while he waits to die in his cell he somehow turns into a car mechanic living an entirely different life. Once the mechanic is set free, their paths begin to cross.

Noe’s magnum opus, a kaleidoscopical LSD aesthetics’ journey of a lost soul. The viewer watches through the protagonist’s eyes, the camera is always on the move, while the great provocateur delivers a directorial tour de force for an audience with a strong stomach and a pure spirit of adventure. — Oscar is an American dealer living in Tokyo. After his best friend's betrayal, he is murdered during a transaction. His soul, watching the consequences of his death, wanders in search of resurrection. — Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 2009 Jury Prize | Sitges Film Festival | 2009

Journalist, podcaster, and author Aris Dimokisis talks about his favorite films on Cinobo: Why these films? Which one would he choose for a first date? What would he do if he came back to earth after his death? And what’s the craziest thing he’s done to ensure the success of one of his books?