Eraserhead + Early Shorts

Lynch's early films owe more to the traditions of the European avant-gardes than to the guerrilla style adopted by the American underground filmmakers of the 1960s. Having impressed with The Grandmother, Lynch joined the Centre for Advanced Film Studies in LA where he took five years to produce his legendary cult horror about an anxious young man struggling with his crushing industrial environment and the premature birth of his mutant child. As MFB put it, an 'absurdist, surrealist treat of repulsive beauty'. Plus The Grandmother (1970, 34min), The Amputee (1973, 5min) and The Alphabet (1968, 4min).

Introduced by Antony Todd on Wednesday 1 February.