Chrystabell
The Spirit Lamp
Music by David Lynch & Chrystabell and Film by David Gatten

10 October

Lisboa – A Voz do Operário Biennial 2025 performance, Music, cinema

Stills by David Gatten

Chrystabell — singer, actress and long-time muse of one of the most emblematic multidisciplinary figures of the North American cultural scene — presents “The Spirit Lamp”, a piece that transports us to a place where music and image become luminescence, mapped by the creative memory of David Lynch. Accompanied by the filmmaker’s instrumental compositions, Chrystabell’s voice moves like an ethereal presence, guiding us through atmospheres that shift between dream and vigil.

The piece begins with Lynch’s own voice, introducing her as a character in a love story — an intimate gesture that opens a window to a world of organic images created by the experimental filmmaker David Gatten. Between shadows and flashes of light, these visions speak to the music, conjuring a sensory landscape that expands and contracts like a thought or a recollection.

“The Spirit Lamp” is more than a concert or a projection: it is an invocation. A place in suspense, where time dissolves and the legacy of Lynch resounds in the present, reanimated by the voice of a performer who fully inhabits its mystery.

Stills by David Gatten
Stills by David Gatten

Sessions

10.10.25

A Voz do Operário, Lisboa

21:30
Concept
Chrystabell and David Gatten
Interpretation
Chrystabell
Music
Chrystabell and David Lynch
Video
David Gatten
Co-presentation and production
BoCA - Biennial of Contemporary Arts (Lisboa)
Support for the presentation in Lisbon
FLAD - Luso-American Development Foundation

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