Director David Lynch and singer Pharell Williams have joined forces to open a bizarre club in Ibiza.
Director David Lynch and musician Pharell Williams have made the unexpected decision to open up a nightclub in Ibiza, Spain. Miranda Makaroff was also part of the collaboration, resulting in a very Lynchian setting. Collider reports that the club, El Silencio, is decorated with “huge fabric tentacles, giant lips and swing seats”, giving due reference to the director’s ouvre.
Located on the East side of the island, the club is also open to diners in their Balearic-themed restaurant. This restaurant will also feature William’s ToGo street food group, where DJ sets and cocktails at the bar will also be available for viewing. Time Out also reports that the club will host its own concert hall, library, and cinema. So asides from the ordinary nightclub, live performances can also be expected, perhaps from Williams himself!
The name of the club is a reference to an iconic scene from Lynch’s Mullholland Drive, in which the characters watch a performance that blurs the lines between fantasy and reality. As explained by mullholland-drive.net,
“Silencio is the club of the knowledge of good and evil, the place where life’s curtain is pulled back to reveal the movie’s core horror: No hay banda [there is no band]. Club Silencio is a paradox, a surreal entertainment, a self-consciously un-live cabaret that trumpets its artificiality. It’s a Milli Vanilli fanclub – surreal, unreal, yet evocative.”
Time will tell how surrealist the real-world version of the club turns out to be. The official El Silencio has a full list of the services it offers, and is already open to reservations.
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