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Eraserhead

Eraserhead

David Lynch

  • 1977
  • USA
  • Horror / Fantasy / Experimental
  • 1h29mn
  • Original version with French subtitles
  • Black and white
In his flat in a deserted and threatening industrial neighborhood, Henry Spencer, a young father struggling to raise his monstrous sick baby, escapes from his daily ordeal into a parallel world hidden in his radiator.
As David Lynch has many masterpieces in his filmography, we won’t venture to say Eraserhead is his best film, but none the less , for his first feature film, what a masterstroke. In his own way, he revisits the pangs of baby blues in this vertigo where reality literally dissolves into nightmares. Pursuing the work initiated in his short animation films, Lynch brilliantly mixes live footage and stop motion animation, inventing an absurd world between grotesque and pure terror. EVERYTHING is already there.

Flying Lotus

Eraserhead is one of my favorite films of all time. One of the greatest films ever made. I love the world that was built, and I just love the vision. You can obviously see the makings of David Lynch and his collaborators, and I just love the story of how the film was made, I think it’s a very inspiring story. It's the creative spirit in its purest form, seeing the spark of inspiration and how it can become someone’s obsession over years and years, and then finally manifest into something that maybe everyone has doubt about, but ultimately becomes a cult classic. It's a beautiful story, and the film is beautiful, and I’ve never seen it on a big screen. It'll be my first time so I’m really looking forward to that.

Screenings

14/09 • 19h45 • Screen 300
Screening presented by Flying Lotus

Credits

  • With : Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph, Jeanne Bates...
  • Screenplay : David Lynch
  • Photography : Herbert Cardwell, Frederick Elmes
  • Editing : David Lynch
  • Music by : Peter Ivers, David Lynch
  • Production : David Lynch