David Lynch's 55 seconds...

Haha, it's funny, i came to this forum to post solely(sp?) on the david lynch short, and this is the only topic.
I don't really think there's an explanation, that's david lynch. Have you seen Eraserhead? It's lynch's first full length film, and it's somewhat similar to the living room scene in the Cinematographe short.
Anyway, i loved Lynch's short because it stood out so much from the rest.

That little punk drove a golf cart through my bar mitzvah, that & he was dressed up like a beaver!

Well, to me it's one of Lynch's associative yet highly evocative pieces, and what I see happening is the following: policemen find the body of a young man; the cut to a home in middle class small town America with a typical wife/mother situates him as a member of 'normal' society; his death has to do with an obscure, criminal, and eery operation that involves cruel scientific experiments on a young naked woman; given Lynch's other works, especially _Blue Velvet_, I would guess that the 'protagonist,' i.e. now dead body, was himself connected as a guilty party in that operation; the policemen ring the doorbell at his small town home; his wife/mother learns about his death, and possibly about his dark side, too; innocence is lost, David Lynch's dark and distorted fantasies have entered the protected and naive normalcy of a family home.

there's some weird ed wood sci-fi element to this as well... there are those aliens in cheap rubber masks doing experiments...

And to think this was done as one, continuous shot.

It seems to me that the police find the body, then a cut to a woman (the dead girls mother perhaps?) who seems to sense that something is amiss. Then a view of what seems to me to be hell, where the girl is now(she is in the big acrylic tube)while the other damned souls meander about,or perhaps they are aliens conducting some kind of experiaments in a flashback before her death, then back to the policeman telling the parents of their loss.
By the way , isn't the mothers shadow a bit creepy in that last shot, like someone looking in at the window?

yeah thread's three years old, but i just wanted to say that i had pretty much the same interpretation as judith, except i was thinking that it was a woman's body that was found as well, and that the woman in the tube was that woman in her mother's "thoughtfantastynightmare" thing

i just noticed the shadow at the end too

also the music in this is gggreat

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Basically a fail I think. He tried to get so complicated that nobody can really figure out what it's about.

The next film in the movie is also a fail, but for the opposite reason: instead of attempting too much it attempts too little.