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Director:
David Lynch
Writer:
David Lynch (writer)
Genre:
Short | Animation more
Plot:
Against a backdrop of bizarre shapes and textures, a small organic figure gives birth to the letters... more | add synopsis
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Art as horror more

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Additional Details

Runtime:
4 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more

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Featured in Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch (1997) (TV) more

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Art as horror, 6 August 1999
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Author: Stephen-12 from London, England

Lynch's first film is a bizarre, revolting and terrifying account of a bedridden young girl apparently being tortured by the alphabet. The letters appear as weird, threatening shapes which (as in his follow-up The Grandmother) seem to take on plant form. The girl herself eventually vomits blood.

The film's meaning isn't clear, and is really of less important than the visuals, which are themselves like moving paintings. The innocence of the child's 'ABC' rhyming song is warped to give a frighteningly naive background to the horrific events.

Lynch's trademark is the expression of fear, and this short foregrounds that motif in the most disturbing way imaginable. Fans of this director should try and catch his debut, as it casts its shadow over much of his later work.

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