David Lynch

In 2018, David Lynch was once again the focus of LEFFEST Lisboa Film Festival's programme, with the extensive "Waiting for Mr. Lynch" retrospective. At the time, and because he was unable to attend the festival, Lynch offered a short film he made that week to be shown as a world premiere at the opening of the retrospective.

Ants gather and consume a head-like shape in a static, abstract composition set to experimental music.

In a locked down train station, a homicide detective conducts an interview with a tormented monkey who is suspected of murder.

Lynch made the animation film Pożar (Fire) in 2015 after the Polish-American composer Marek Zebrowski created a musical composition as a tribute to him. The film was included in the 2018 retrospective "Someone Is In My House".

A feature-length compilation of deleted and alternate takes from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, assembled by creator David Lynch to continue the story of the final week of Laura Palmer’s life.

Duran Duran: Unstaged is a multimedia event that takes the audience on a cinematic journey with one of the most successful acts in the world during their performance at the Mayan Theater in Los Angeles.

A nearly wordless portrait of the renowned fine art printing studio in Paris, capturing the intricate process of lithography.

Experimental short created for the 7th annual Memory Marathon at London’s Serpentine Gallery, exploring the theme of memory through image and sound.

Since 1995, the Viennale has invited renowned directors to create short, one-minute films as personal contributions to the festival. Ranging from home movies to political essays, musical sketches to abstract studies, these “little films” form a unique anthology of cinematic moments. 20 Little Films collects a selection of these works, premiering together for the Viennale’s 50th anniversary at the Locarno Film Festival.

Fifty-three minutes of deleted scenes and alternate takes assembled by David Lynch.

“I Touch a Red Button Man” is a 2011 animated short film directed by renowned filmmaker David Lynch for Interpol's song “Lights.”

An omnibus project bringing together acclaimed directors from around the world, each contributing a 42-second short inspired by a dream. Produced by 42 Below vodka, the collection blends surreal, poetic, and experimental visions into a mosaic of oneiric cinema.

A 16mm film experiment conducted in 1967 and 1968 in Philadelphia which feature small parts of the Alphabet and the Grandmother.

A fun short piece that Lynch presented as his acceptance for the Hollyshorts 2008 Visionary Award.

A surreal short film that Lynch made for the 2008 Twin Peaks Festival. It only screened once and is in black and white. In this film, Lynch is speaking backwards in what looks to be a cross between the floors of Eraserhead and the Twin Peaks Red Room. Sitting next to him is a plastic doll with the face of Laura Palmer.

David Lynch turns this digital video of a ballerina into an impressionistic exercise.

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.

Lost in thought, while staring at a silent bucket filled to the brim with water, David Lynch is shocked to discover that the ailing neighbour's chicken has gone missing.

A collection of deleted scenes from David Lynch's 2006 surrealist horror INLAND EMPIRE.

Two hours of original content previously only available to paid up members of DavidLynch.com. This Best Of package includes 7 short films plus 3 intervalometer camera experiments. All shorts are written, directed, edited and scored by David Lynch with introductions from David before each item. Also includes 20 minutes of David Lynch answering an interesting variety of questions from members of his website. Contains The Darkened Room, Boat, Lamp, Out Yonder Neighbor Boy, Industrial Soundscape, The Bug Crawls, Inveralometer Experiments, Members Questions.

When actress Nikki Grace gets the lead role in a cursed film, her world becomes more and more surreal, blending realities and ideas of infidelity, reincarnation, and supernatural forces.

In a solemn, haunted environment, a small bug crawls over the silhouette of a house.

David Lynch experiments with time and photography in three different locations.

A journey into night.

Short documentary of David Lynch building a lamp.

On a quiet winter morning, Austin, son of David Lynch, breaks his silence and decides to talk about his troubling functional incapacitation.

The Disc of Sorrow gets installed.

Music is produced by different objects in an industrial and desolate landscape.

A story of a group of humanoid rabbits and their depressive, daily life. The plot includes Suzie ironing, Jane sitting on a couch, Jack walking in and out of the apartment, and the occasional solo singing number by Suzie or Jane. At one point the rabbits also make contact with their “leader”.

A collection of visionary director David Lynch's short films from the first 29 years of his career is accompanied by a special introduction to each film by the director himself.

No one knows what has been going on behind the closed doors of the city's macabre and noisome abattoir.

Two young women find themselves in a dark room where there is a distinctly strange feeling.

Before our very eyes, BlueBob gets arrested in broad daylight.

Humorous short film in which David Lynch and his son Austin observe the follies of their neighbor.

Life can be hard on planet Earth, especially when you're running out of air.

Features a dead mouse with ants on it.

Time lapse of a flight of stairs. One of five segments from Intervalometer Experiments (2001-2003).

A coyote somehow finds a way to a motel room.

Suddenly, in the cramped boiler room, a pressure-relief valve opens and discharges steam. Then, a certified technician approaches to perform a routine check. But, is he wearing his factory mask?

An aspect of life.

Time lapse of a valley with light fading. One of five segments from Intervalometer Experiments (2001-2003).

David Lynch discusses the making of the film "Eraserhead."

Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.

Retired farmer and widower Alvin Straight learns one day that his estranged brother Lyle has suffered a severe stroke. Alvin is determined to make things right with Lyle while he still can, but his brother lives in Wisconsin, while Alvin is stuck in Iowa with no car and no driver's license. He then has the idea of making the trip on his old lawnmower, thus beginning a picturesque and at times deeply spiritual odyssey.

A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) no synchronized sound was permitted, and (3) no more than three takes.

A short film about the events following a murder.

Michael Jackson's Dangerous album once again rocketed the global superstar to mega-platinum success! "Dangerous - The Short Films" captures the visual and musical highlights of his most recent string of hit singles. As well as extensive behind the scenes profiles of the making of Michael's state of the art short films.

In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, Agent Dale Cooper chillingly predicts that the culprit will claim another life. Meanwhile, in the more cozy town of Twin Peaks, hedonistic beauty Laura Palmer hangs with lowlifes and seems destined for a grisly fate.

A collection of European T.V. commercials directed by a variety of well-known directors from across Europe and the U.S. Compiled and produced by Jean-Marie Boursicot.

After her boyfriend ends their relationship, the dreamself of a heartbroken woman floats through the air over an industrial wasteland singing ballads of love.

Young lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together away from the wrath of Lula’s deranged, disapproving mother, who has hired a team of hitmen to cut the lovers’ surreal honeymoon short.

An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks. (This standalone version of the series pilot was produced for the European VHS market and has an alternate, closed ending.)

In 1988, Figaro magazine asked a few famous directors to direct a series of short movies to celebrate the 10 years of the revue. The movies have been released for the French revolution bicentenary. Includes: Werner Herzog's Les Gaulois, David Lynch's The Cowboy and the Frenchman, Andrzej Wajda's Proust contre la déchéance, Luigi Comencini's Pèlerinage à Agen, Jean-Luc Godard's Le dernier mot.

A grizzled, hard-of-hearing cowboy, Slim, and his two friends, Dusty and Pete, capture a mysterious, well-dressed Frenchman.

The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.

In the year 10,191, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The spice is vital to space travel. The spice exists on only one planet in the entire universe, the vast desert planet Arrakis, also known as Dune. Its native inhabitants, the Fremen, have long held a prophecy that a man would come, a messiah who would lead them to true freedom.

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity. Based on the true story of Joseph Merrick (called John Merrick in the film), a severely deformed man in 19th century London.

First-time father Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.

A double amputee attempts to write a letter while her nurse gets in the way.

To escape neglect and abuse from his parents, a young boy plants some strange seeds and they grow into a grandmother.

A woman's dark and absurdist nightmare vision comprising a continuous recitation of the alphabet and bizarre living representations of each letter.

A man approaches a woman in a field.

In 1967, a young David Lynch grabbed his new Bolex 16mm camera, to film his friend and mentor Bushnell Keeler and brother Dave Keeler sailing on the Chesapeake Bay in Bush's King's Cruiser. This was David Lynch's very first film, which he prefers to call a "home movie". It depicts a man, a painter, who changed David's life forever pursuing the artist's life, which he continues to this day.

Lynch's first film project consists of a looping animation of six people vomiting projected on to a special sculptured screen featuring twisted three-dimensional faces.