“Short-circuit: a Twin Peaks system” is the title of a video-essay by Mubi on the strange and cryptic poetics of the notorious TV-series Twin Peaks. The director David Lynch, is famous for his enigmatic direction of movies.

The work, as a comment to the audiovisual essay, tries to clarify some theoretical links between what is shown in the video, outlining also a more general profile on Lynch's work. There are references to other critics work such as “The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: on David Lynch's Lost Highway” by Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek or “Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man” by media expert Mashall McLuhan.

The result is an analysis on the relation between evil and electricity or technology in general.

The thesis exposed there is that Lynch is substantially an idealist in the conception of mediums that conveys evil forces as he shows in his movies. The work has been formatted to resemble the esthetic of a movie screenplay.