Six Figures Getting Sick (1966)

A short continuously looping animation of six grotesque human figures vomiting.

Director:

David Lynch

Storyline

Lynch's first film project, it is basically an endlessly repeating film of people vomiting with their heads on fire projected on to a special sculptured screen featuring twisted three-dimensional faces in various states of puking.

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Plot Keywords:

vomiting | produced by director | surrealism | siren | student film | 

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Genres:

Short | Animation

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

3 February 2007 (Denmark)

Also Known As:

Six Men Getting Sick (Six Times)

Box Office

Budget:

$200 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Pensylvania Academy of Fine Arts

Technical Specs

Runtime:

4 min

Color:

Black and White Color

Did You Know?

Connections

Edited into The Short Films of David Lynch (2002)

User Reviews

David Lynch's first feature is a moving painting

This first film from David Lynch is not really a film at all. It is better to think of it as a moving painting. Its origins bear this out. Lynch was working on a picture while studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts when he felt a 'little wind' and wished that the painting could move. This set him to work on creating an animated composition which became Six Men Getting Sick.

It consists of a screen with three sculptures built into its top left corner. These three figures are casts of Lynch himself. This screen then has an animation projected onto it. The animation adds a further three figures. It connects the stomachs to the heads. They fill up, hands appear over the distressed heads, the word 'Sick' flashes up and the heads catch fire and vomit. All of this is accompanied by a repetitive siren wail.

Because the image is projected onto a sculpture it's fair to say that this is really a 3D art installation rather than a film. When it was shown at an art competition it was repeated on a continual loop. On DVD this is reduced to six cycles. The repetition does make sense though as it allows you to see different things each time. It certainly indicates what an original artist Lynch was even at this early stage.