Eraserhead

David Lynch
Fri 14 Feb

David Lynch’s first feature film is drenched in raw, existential dread—about parenthood, poverty, and surviving in the industrial swamp known as Philadelphia. The production was a grueling ordeal: money kept running out, filming was repeatedly put on hold, and lead actor Jack Nance had to maintain his hairstyle for years, always ready to step in front of the camera at a moment’s notice.  
 

When Eraserhead premiered in ’77, it immediately struck a chord with the underground scene—John Waters was a fan, and the film became a staple of the midnight movie circuit. This was Lynch’s unsettling, nightmarish entrance into the film world—and the start of something much bigger.

David Lynch Retrospective
David Lynch. The master of the surreal, the unsettling, and the elusive. At Natlab, we celebrate his work with a retrospective featuring four of his most iconic films: Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, and Eraserhead. Four films that plunge you into the deepest corners of the subconscious, where nothing is as it seems and where beauty and horror go hand in hand.

From the suffocating industrial nightmare of Eraserhead to the sultry, sinister dream of Mulholland Drive. A tribute to a visionary who led us astray into the darkest recesses of the human mind. Come watch, experience, and lose yourself in his universe.

Eraserhead
Direction
David Lynch
Cast
Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph, Jeanne Bates
Duration
141 min
RELEASE
Sat 19 Mar
Year
1976
Country
USA
Language
English
Subtitles
Dutch
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