Learn Filmmaking From David Lynch, The David Lynch Way

David Lynch, the experimental filmmaker responsible for hit television show Twin Peaks, modern movie classics like Mulholland Drive, and lobbying for Laura Dern to get an Oscar by sitting on the side of the street with a cow, has joined forces with the Maharishi School of Management to create the David Lynch MA in Film Program, where students will be able to make movies, get feedback from David Lynch on their work, and "transcend and experience that unbounded ocean of pure consciousness, which is unbounded intelligence, creativity, happiness, love, energy, power and peace."  Neat.

It's not too surprising that Lynch, long interested in the benefits of transcendental meditation, would attach himself to a school like the Maharishi School of Management, which is located in tiny Fairfield, Iowa and appears to have a lot of courses dedicated to freeing your minds and eating organic food and such.  With idiosyncratic talents like Lynch increasingly choosing to follow alternative paths apart from Hollywood, it may only be a matter of time before the American film industry migrates to the midwest.

But probably not.  Good on Lynch for continuing to blaze new trails for himself.  It must come pretty naturally to him at this point.