Early Experiments

MOVIE #1,033 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 06.26.23 This odds and ends edit came out on DVD in 2002 and comprises various things made around the time leading up to The Alphabet. Flashing images, some living art again, kaleidoscope-style. We then see Lynch and he’s clearly 'acting’ — slowly moving his hands, casting shadows, etc., and this goes on for several minutes before transitioning into a painting with a symmetrical design with fire underneath, utilizing a mirror effect. Then we see Peggy in a rocking chair in black room. She’s having some tea. There are jump scares. Jump scares, yes. Lynchian jump scares. She is legit creepy. Green paint on baby doll head. Mirror effect on Peggy in white room to very successful results.

Easily the freakiest thing yet. Really making good use of mirror and other in-camera FX but maybe edited way later?

Back to the symmetrical living art; the fire increases. We briefly see Lynch behind the camera again, a slower and even more ominous return. My one issue is maybe the utilization of this music: I think it would make anything you’re watching 90% creepier.

Now things have really slowed down, blurry images. Cut to an older actress but same visuals and scenes from Alphabet room and also Peggy is still there. Return to the living art and the whole painting has changed and we see a demonic figure at center. More mirrored stuff with Peggy but more cut up with faster edits and we see some geometric design which looks a lot like the floor in the Twin Peaks red room. Cool effect over the old lady face, drawing on the film strip. Mirroring a dead insect now.

I mean, I could just make gifs out of every part of this. Very giffable shit…


Living painting of a tree on black background. And then it ends.

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A 16mm film experiment conducted in 1967 and 1968 in Philadelphia which feature small parts of the Alphabet and the Grandmother. It was released on January 1, 1968.