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Oct 9, 2020 · 3. The Alphabet (1968) “The Alphabet,” a haunting mix of animation and live action, tracks a nightmarish girl who has alphabet dreams of an abstract creature made of shapes and letters. One of Lynch’s earliest shorts, it plays out like a melting pot of Francis Bacon and films of the surrealist movement. 4.
- The Alphabet
- The Grandmother
- The Amputee
- The Cowboy and The Frenchman
- Premonitions Following An Evil Deed
- Dumbland
- What Did Jack do?
- Bonus - David Lynch Cooks Quinoa
Lynch seems to have an ability to take mundane ideas, such as the birth of a child (Eraserhead), and turn them into the stuff of surrealist nightmares. With his 1968 short film The Alphabet, one of his earliest shorts, Lynch turns his twisted touch upon the schoolhouse basics of singing the alphabet. Inspiredby his then-wife’s niece having a nightm...
After he found success and fulfillment with The Alphabet, Lynch, with partial funding by The American Film Institute (AFI), made 1970s The Grandmother. In many ways, The Grandmother narratively and thematically works as an inverse to Lynch’s 1977 breakthrough feature, Eraserhead. Where Eraserhead deals with the anxieties and dread of being a new pa...
While his first feature, Eraserhead, was stuck in “production hell,” lacking the necessary funds to continue shooting, Lynch learned that AFI was planning to conduct a test comparing two different types of black and white video tape stock. After getting approval to shoot anything he wanted, as long as it was the same on both stocks, Lynch used this...
After 14 years of success and acclaim as a feature film director, including eight Academy Award nominations for his film The Elephant Man, Lynch returned to the medium of the short film. While on a trip to Paris, Lynch was propositioned to make a short film for the French TV special The French as Seen by…, a collection of five shorts, each showcasi...
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Lumière brothers’ first public screening of a film in 1895, forty-one directors, including Michael Haneke, Abbas Kiarostami, Spike Lee, and David Lynch, were given the opportunity to each contribute a fifty-two-second short film, shot on the Lumière’s original Cinematograph camera, for an anthology titled L...
Have you ever wondered what it would be like if David Lynch had an Adult Swim show? Well ponder no further, because Dumbland is what you’ve been looking for. Originally released weekly in 2002 on his personal website, Dumbland is a Flash animated web-series in eight parts, with a total runtime of thirty-two minutes. Written, directed, voiced, and s...
We love a monkey movie, don’t we folks? David Lynch seems to, as one of his most recent shorts, 2017s What Did Jack Do? stars a monkey (Jack Cruz). In the works for several years, Lynch, in an odd-ball sentence typical to his style, said in 2014 “I’m building a chair. I love to build things and this is for a monkey film. I’m working with a monkey n...
After watching all of those mind-bending, thought-provoking short films, I bet you’re pretty hungry, right? Well, thankfully, David Lynch has got you covered, with his short film David Lynch Cooks Quinoa. Is quinoa any good? Well, take it from Lynch himself: “quinoa is something that I like to have for dinner every chance I get.” Over the course of...
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Aug 21, 2018 · 10 Best David Lynch Short Films. August 21, 2018. ... dim-witted family through a series of eight roughly animated black-and-white shorts. Lynch does all the writing, directing, animating, and ...
Jul 13, 2021 · After a car wreck on Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality. Director: David Lynch | Stars: Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux, Jeanne Bates. Votes: 383,816 | Gross: $7.22M.
David Lynch made his name with long-form works, his cult films Eraserhead and Blue Velvet, or the TV series Twin Peaks, which he made with Mark Frost. These larger canvases give Lynch room to ...
Oct 24, 2014 · This is the film that changed Lynch’s life. In fact, in telling us how he made it with a grant from the AFI, he becomes emotional. The longest of the shorts included here, it’s also, in my opinion, the best. Perhaps surprising after two films of random images, “The Grandmother” has a sort of narrative arc.
The Short Films of David Lynch. The Short Films of David Lynch (2002) is a DVD collection of the early student and commissioned film work of American filmmaker David Lynch. As such, the collection does not include Lynch's later short works, which are listed in the filmography . The films are listed in chronological order, with brief ...
