Blauer Salon
Summer term 2025
Eraserhead

Eraserhead

Director: David Lynch | USA 1977 | 89 min | 35mm | Original Version with german Subtitles | with Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph

Henry, who is currently stuck in vacation mode, is told by his girlfriend's family at a family dinner that he is the new father of a strange baby. He is to marry the mother of his child as soon as possible and take care of the child with her. Things are anything but smooth between the mother and father, who have moved into Henry's apartment together with their child. The young woman, tormented by the daily sight of the freak of nature and his nerve-wracking whining, gives up early on and leaves Henry. Only reluctantly does he try to come to terms with his child in a post-apocalyptic city where industry has replaced almost everything else, and he becomes completely absorbed by him. David Lynch's surrealistic debut film, which took more than five years to hatch on a marginal budget, is still a terrifying and nightmarish cult hit today!

Resolution: This movie was shown at this open air cinema as KULT SNEAK.

Loan of the film print with kind support of Werkstattkino

Supporting Film: World

Director: Jordan Belson | USA 1970 | 6 min | 16mm | Without dialogue

A hypnotic stream of light, color and cosmic energy: In World, Jordan Belson unfolds a meditative journey through abstract shapes and pulsating patterns reminiscent of star explosions and spiritual visions. Belson, influenced by mysticism and Eastern philosophy, used innovative animation techniques and optical effects to create an almost transcendental world of images. "I try to focus on something, to bring it back to life from the unexplored areas of the inner image, the inner space. Intuition is the basis of my aesthetic judgment. The more you allow intuition to speak to you, the closer you get to the truth and the origins of the universe." (Jordan Belson)

Loan of the film print with the kind support of Oberhausen International Short Film Festival.
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