Original short films from director David Lynch (Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive) including:
1. Six Men Getting Sick (1967-1 min. film loop projected on
a sculptured screen - repeated six times)
2. The Alphabet (1968-4 min.)
3. The Grandmother (1970-34 min.)
4. The Amputee (1973-Version 1: 5 min./Version 2: 4 min.)
5. The Cowboy and the Frenchman (1988-26 min.)
6. Lumière (1995-1 min.)
Each film preceded by an introduction by director David Lynch.
Custom packaged in an 8" by 8" box, containing a 16 page booklet.
David Lynch's short films,starting with his first projec (1967)t when he was primarily a painter, here entitled "Six Men Getting Sick". This is presented here as a short flm loop: the original exhibit combined sculpted models ("mannequins") with film images and sound for a very weird and (typically) unsetleing effect.
#2 is "The Alphabet",(1968) in which Mr.Lynch turns something as innocuous as the english alphabet into the stuff of troubled dreams. #3 is "The Grandmother"(1970), Lynch's first "longer" film, funded as were most of his early works, by the American Film Institute, whilst our hero eked out a bare living doing manual labor, paper deliveries & the like. The symbols of dreams, repression, sexuality, industrial & human decay, etc, leavened with the darkest of humor, comprise the subject here, much as they reached their pinnacle 4 or 5 years later in "Eraserhead".
#4: The Amputee (1973)
#5 The Cowboy & the Frenchman (1987) with Harry Dean Stanton & Lynch regulars
#6 Lumiere (1995) Lynch's contribution to the compilation film of the same title, for which a number of top directors were invited to
each create a film using antique methods & equipment.