The Wish To Be a Red Indian: Kafka and Cinema 2024 / The Grandmother / USA 1970
Beneath the earth a family is born, whose members come into the world bursting through a pile of sodden leaves. Father, mother and son are forced to live together, imprisoned in this dark, reproductive mechanism. The child, who is a perpetual lightning rod for his father’s rage and is often left on his own, plants a seed in his bed, which germinates into a grandmother. David Lynch, who, for years, entertained the idea of making a feature based on Franz Kafka, had already anticipated similar thoughts in his third short film. Using a combination of live action and animation, he explores territory, whose atmosphere is reminiscent of The Metamorphosis and Letter to My Father.
Lorenzo Esposito
33 min / Color, Black & White, Data Files
Director David Lynch
/ Screenplay David Lynch
/ Dir. of Photography David Lynch
/ Producer David Lynch
/ Production American Film Institute
/ Cast Dorothy McGinnis, Richard White, Virginia Maitland, Robert Chadwick
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David Lynch (1946, Missoula, Montana). Selected filmography: The Grandmother (1970, short), Eraserhead (1976), The Elephant Man (1980), Dune (1984), Blue Velvet (1986), Wild at Heart (1990), Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992), Lost Highway (1997), The Straight Story (1999), Mulholland Drive (2001), Inland Empire (2006), Twin Peaks: The Return (2017).
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