Eraserhead

In a smog-choked industrial dystopia, a young man is invited for dinner to meet his girlfriend’s parents, only to learn that she has had his baby – a deformed limbless monstrosity – and the couple are forced to marry. So begins Lynch’s endlessly surreal debut feature film, a grim manifestation of the director’s own anxieties of being a penniless new husband and father. Brimming with grotesque imagery and fuelled by a nightmarish dream logic that defies interpretation, Eraserhead remains as profoundly hypnotic, aurally unsettling, and darkly humorous as ever, standing unchallenged as one of American independent cinema’s most iconic cult classics.

13/9 (Sat): Speaker: May Fung (Independent art and cultural worker)