Not much was known about the short film, Fire (Pozar), that David Lynch wrote, animated and directed back in 2015. The project, which was created in collaboration with Polish-American composer Marek Zebrowski, finally had its premiere on Lynch's YouTube channel today. 

It seems the Twin Peaks director is using his time in lockdown to entertain lovers of meteorology (see his rebooted weather reports) and cinephiles alike with a string of new content. Fire (Pozar) is evocative of early black-and-white silent films but comes with a spectral twist. The gaunt and sorrowful animation, which is set to spine-chilling music, lives up to the director's penchant for psychologically disturbing tale.

In an interview with USC Thornton School of Music around the time of the film's original screening, Lynch said: "The whole point of our experiment was that I would say nothing about my intentions and Marek would interpret the visuals in his own way.” 

The resulting score was titled Music for David and was performed by the Penderecki String Quartet. "I thought it was a very melancholic film in a certain sense and also very poetic,” Zebrowski said. “Without trying to be too explicit, I tried to illustrate further what David was doing. For example, there is something that looks like a hailstorm and I used a lot of pizzicato, but I also used a soaring melodic line to add a lyrical element to it.”