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(aka "Six Figures Getting Sick")
This is Lynch's very first "movie". It was made in 1967 and has a length of 60 seconds. Actually it was
part of an experimental sculpture Lynch did at the Pensylvania Academy Of The Fine Arts in Philadelphia.
The sculpture/film won first prize in a student show. The work had a rectangular screen with three gapemouthed
face fragments staring out while a fuller bust, jaw pressed to palm, leers disapprovingly. Onto this three-dimensional
screen, Lynch projected a short film that was wound around long arms extended on each side of his second-hand
8mm camera, so the film literally ran in a loop on the squeaking rattling contraption.
David Lynch characterizes "Six Men Getting Sick" as "57 seconds of growth and fire and 3 seconds of vomit.
It started off with six heads and then arms and stomachs grew in. The heads caught fire and then all of the heads
got violently sick and then it started all over again".
The use of a projector and the inclusion of the operating machine as part of the sculpture introduces an industrial
element present in many subsequent Lynch works. The project also initiates Lynch's interest in vomiting, which
will be graphically and frequently represented in his paintings as well as in his full-length films from
"Eraserhead" to "Wild At Heart"
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