The Disc of Sorrow is Installed

MOVIE #1,442 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 03.14.24 This short opens with grainy digital footage of a sign which reads “future home of disc of sorrow” sign below a bird feeder. We see Lynch on camera reciting a poetry about birds and squirrels as he holds a big blue wooden circle, the aforementioned “disc of sorrow.” Two goofily dressed men come out to help install the disc around the pole of the bird feeder. “The disc of sorrow has been installed,” Lynch announces. I have questions. It seems like the point of this is to catch some of the seeds that fall so that birds and squirrels alike have an equal shot of getting their chow on, but I'm not sure. Why is this sorrowful? Is the mere act of seeing a squirrel eat birdseed worthy of anguish? Lynch's cryptic ‘poem’ perhaps has the answer:

“Squirrels above, birds below. These days life is backwards, don’t you know. With the disc of sorrow it’s a different show. Birds above and squirrels below.” He is trying to provide order to a formless, ever-mutating world. Just as he also has.

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Holding a thin, indigo-blue metallic disc, the mysterious doppelgänger of the American filmmaker, David Lynch, and his well-equipped two-member crew prepare to perform a delicate and time-sensitive task. It was released on September 26, 2002.