By Richard Harland Smith Producer: H. Barton Wasserman
Director: David Lynch
Screenplay: David Lynch
Cinematography: David Lynch
Film Editing: David Lynch
Music: David Lynch
Cast: Peggy Lynch (Girl).
BW&C-4m.
The Alphabet
Brief Synopsis
This presents a sick woman's nightmare involving living representations of the alphabet.
Cast & Crew
Read More
David Lynch
Director
Peggy Lynch
Robert Cullum
Sound Mixer
David Lynch
Editor
David Lynch
Sound
David Lynch
Cinematographer
Film Details
Genre
Short
Experimental
Horror
Release Date
1968
Production Company
Pensylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Technical Specs
Duration
3m
Synopsis
This presents a sick woman's nightmare involving living representations of the alphabet.
Director
David Lynch
Director
Cast
Peggy Lynch
Film Details
Genre
Short
Experimental
Horror
Release Date
1968
Production Company
Pensylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Technical Specs
Duration
3m
Articles
The Alphabet
David Lynch has been for so long a Zen papa to the deeply weird that it is difficult to imagine him as a student, much less as an impressionable young man. Lynch was precisely that in 1968 as a student of painting at Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Married in 1967 to fellow art student Peggy Reavy and the father of an infant daughter at age 22, Lynch shifted his academic focus from fine art to moving pictures. His first effort in the new medium was the animated short subject Six Men Getting Sick (Six Times) (1966), described by the ebullient first-time filmmaker as "fifty-seven seconds of growth and fire, and three seconds of vomit." Exhilarated by the process, Lynch bought his own 16mm camera, a used Bolex that set him back $478.28 and which he put to work on other projects - one of the first of which was The Alphabet (1968). Funded by his father and the loan of $1,000 from a fellow student and inspired by an actual nightmare, The Alphabet was for Lynch a cinematic crucible in which he could smelt his anxieties about school and fatherhood, depicting as it does a woman (Reavy) who slumbers fitfully while a disembodied voice recites the alphabet before she hemorrhages violently amid a welter of spermatazoid squiggles that would later turn up in Lynch's feature film debut Eraserhead (1977) . Encouraged to send the short to the American Film Institute in Hollywood, Lynch was awarded by the AFI with production funds for his next project, The Grandmother (1970).
By Richard Harland Smith Producer: H. Barton Wasserman
Director: David Lynch
Screenplay: David Lynch
Cinematography: David Lynch
Film Editing: David Lynch
Music: David Lynch
Cast: Peggy Lynch (Girl).
BW&C-4m.
By Richard Harland Smith Producer: H. Barton Wasserman
Director: David Lynch
Screenplay: David Lynch
Cinematography: David Lynch
Film Editing: David Lynch
Music: David Lynch
Cast: Peggy Lynch (Girl).
BW&C-4m.
The Alphabet
David Lynch has been for so long a Zen papa to the deeply weird that it is difficult to imagine him as a student, much less as an impressionable young man. Lynch was precisely that in 1968 as a student of painting at Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Married in 1967 to fellow art student Peggy Reavy and the father of an infant daughter at age 22, Lynch shifted his academic focus from fine art to moving pictures. His first effort in the new medium was the animated short subject Six Men Getting Sick (Six Times) (1966), described by the ebullient first-time filmmaker as "fifty-seven seconds of growth and fire, and three seconds of vomit." Exhilarated by the process, Lynch bought his own 16mm camera, a used Bolex that set him back $478.28 and which he put to work on other projects - one of the first of which was The Alphabet (1968). Funded by his father and the loan of $1,000 from a fellow student and inspired by an actual nightmare, The Alphabet was for Lynch a cinematic crucible in which he could smelt his anxieties about school and fatherhood, depicting as it does a woman (Reavy) who slumbers fitfully while a disembodied voice recites the alphabet before she hemorrhages violently amid a welter of spermatazoid squiggles that would later turn up in Lynch's feature film debut Eraserhead (1977) . Encouraged to send the short to the American Film Institute in Hollywood, Lynch was awarded by the AFI with production funds for his next project, The Grandmother (1970).
By Richard Harland Smith
Producer: H. Barton Wasserman
Director: David Lynch
Screenplay: David Lynch
Cinematography: David Lynch
Film Editing: David Lynch
Music: David Lynch
Cast: Peggy Lynch (Girl).
BW&C-4m.
