Six Men Getting Sick (1967)

Directed by

David Lynch

Genre

animated film

Country

United States

Runtime

4 min

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 211 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a short animated film by David Lynch. It shows six deformed figures vomiting one after another while a siren plays in a loop.

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What happens

Six Men Getting Sick (Six Times) (sometimes known as Six Figures Getting Sick) is a 1967 experimental animated short film, directed by David Lynch. A student project that was developed over the course of a semester, it is Lynch's first film and was shot while he was attending the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The film consists of an animated painting, depicting six dysmorphic figures regurgitating in sequence with the sound of a siren loop. The film was created on a budget of $200 and upon its screening it was well received by Lynch's peers, earning the Dr. William S. Biddle Cadwalader Memorial Prize at the school's experimental-painting-and-sculpture contest. Six Men Getting Sick received a home-media release in 2001 as part of The Short Films of David Lynch DVD, and it has been noted by critics as containing a similar narrative structure to his 1977 debut feature film Eraserhead. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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