In the Beginning: Three Short Films by David Lynch

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Whenever I pay one of my sporadic visits to TSL HQ, it seems there’s always something going on with these crazy kids. This month, it’s TWIN PEAKS fever, with everyone buzzing about David Lynch . Lisa and the gang just won’t stop gabbing about it, and since I can’t concentrate  on my own work, I figure if you can’t beat ’em join ’em! So let’s take a brief look at three of David Lynch’s very early works, before he became the auteur he is today.

Lynch’s first work on film was a one minute short called SIX MEN GETTING SICK (SIX TIMES), a 1966 experimental piece of animation based on a painting of his. It features the six men having their stomachs filled by red bile, which snakes it’s way up their intestines, causing them to vomit out a purplish puke, over and over, set to the sound of a wailing siren…

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