The 2025 edition of Poland’s Camerimage Film Festival opened Saturday evening with a surprise tribute to the late master David Lynch and his longtime collaborator Peter Deming.

The festival awarded Lynch and Deming the Duo Award, an honor handed to cinematographer-director partnerships. Deming was present at the festival opening in Torun, Poland, to accept the award. Previous recipients of Camerimage’s Duo Award include Werner Herzog and Peter Zeitlinger, who took the gong in 2023. Quentin Tarantino and Robert Richardson shared the award in 2019, and Todd Haynes and Ed Lachman were handed the award in 2011.

Lynch and Deming’s creative partnership began with the short-lived TV project On the Air (1992). The duo continued to collaborate over the decades. Some of their other credits i

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