Eraserhead (Cinémathèque Film Club)

Eraserhead

USA 1977 | David Lynch | vostFR | 89' | digital | Cast : Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph, Jeanne Bates, Jack Fisk

A timid man tries to navigate anxiety, fatherhood, and existential dread in a surreal and bleak industrial world after the birth of a strange, unsettling child.

« My musician friends swear by him, I know architects inspired by his approach to creativity, and I've met people who found comfort in his interviews during difficult periods of their lives. David Lynch wasn't just a film director. He was one of those rare artists whose way of looking at the world seemed to answer a creative (and perhaps even existential) urge. Many know of his first feature, Eraserhead, but very few have experienced at its most powerful: projected in a dark room with the sound properly turned up. Whether you see it as a nightmare, a comedy, a film about parenthood, anxiety, or simply a way to escape, it is a work that almost demands personal interpretation. In the internet age which has formatted us to explore mysteries rather than to solve them, Eraserhead remains as fascinating today as it was nearly fifty years ago. Nobody agrees on what it means. But almost everyone agrees on how it feels. » (Stephen Korytko)

▶ Film followed by a conversation with Cinémathèque Film Club guest Stephen Korytko and the audience in English | about 45’

Stephen Korytko is a narrative and commercial director. His upcoming projects include his debut feature, Dead Dad Girl, a dark comedy about the lengths we go to fit in, and an art installation on the degeneration of memory. Both are slated for release in 2026.