“in heaven, everything is fine”

I recently saw Eraserhead (David Lynch, 1977) in a theatre. If the film is like someone else’s nightmare, watching it in a theatre is like being trapped in the said nightmare. The image is all compassing. As the film berates you with bizarre and surreal imagery – like the singing, swollen-cheeked radiator girl or the suggestively bleeding chicken – you sit there, with nowhere to advert your eyes, watching and digesting the images, enfolded in the entire experience. Eraserhead, which is as about as logical as a feverish delusion, is based on personal interpretation. Everyone who sees this film walks away with something random, while Lynch has stated that no interpretation yet has matched his own. It is a personal nightmare that must be worked through, must be dealt with, must be fought with and dreamt again and again and again. With this, the film is an experience, one that you feel and react to as you watch  – and best experienced if you are totally immersed in it.

So, to achive total immersion without a theatre? Watch on a laptop, with huge headphones on, all the lights turned off, a sheet over your head, and enclose yourself inside the nightmare.

hello, hello

I haven’t kept a blog since starting university. I blame the onset of projects and an overabundance of general lack of time. This semester, however, it’s also created an overload of things I want to blog about. All I want to do is write. (along with intake and make media.)

This blog is my attempt to defeat my mental clutter. Watch as it wrenches in agony!