# Event Details - **Event Name**: MOVING PAINTINGS—WITH SOUND: Early Short Films of DAVID LYNCH + ERASERHEAD - **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 16 Jan, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Fri, 16 Jan, 2026 at 10:00 pm - **Event Description**: Celebrating Lynch's earliest experiments w/ "moving paintings – but with sound," feat. his early short films and monumental debut feature!About this EventThis January, 7th House, The Philosophical Research Society and Zebulon honor one of the great all time masters of cinema with their series NIGHT BLOOMING JASMINE: A CELEBRATION OF DAVID LYNCH, with events throughout the month at both PRS and Zebulon. Perhaps no artist has ever imbued their work with such darkness, mystery, wonder, beauty, and humor, a consummate creator whose journeys into the far reaches of imagination and consciousness have left an indelible and eternal mark on the world. For this very special program at The Philosophical Research Society, 7th House will explore his earliest experiments in cinema, beginning with his first short films SIX MEN GETTING SICK (SIX TIMES) (1967), THE ALPHABET (1968), THE GRANDMOTHER (1970), and THE AMPUTEE (Versions 1 & 2) (1974) and culminating with a screening of his visionary feature debut masterpiece ERASERHEAD (1977).Since his Midwestern boyhood, David Lynch’s greatest aspiration was to be a painter, to immerse himself in what he referred to as “the art life.” Unlike many of his filmmaking contemporaries, Lynch did not grow up at the movies. Cinema was not a lifelong passion nor a career ambition. It wasn’t until the mid-1960s, while studying painting at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), that a single, uncanny experience quietly redirected his path. As Lynch later recalled, he was working on a painting of a dark, wooded landscape when he suddenly felt the image begin to move — the trees seeming to sway, accompanied by the sensation of wind and sound. The canvas no longer felt static, but alive.In that moment, Lynch glimpsed the possibility of what he would later call “moving paintings—but with sound,” an intuitive revelation that became the true origin of his cinema, rooted less in narrative tradition than in pre-verbal sensory permutations and impenetrable mysteries. He soon shifted the focus of his studies to cinema, creating his first two short film experiments, SIX MEN GETTING SICK (SIX TIMES) – which integrated his paintings with mixed-media animation, and THE ALPHABET, before fully committing himself by moving to Los Angeles to attend the American Film Institute, where he made his remaining short films (the nightmarish and impressively ambitious THE GRANDMOTHER and THE AMPUTEE, x 2) and monumental, paradigm-shifting debut feature ERASERHEAD, the primal scene of midnight cinema.A masterfully unnerving vision of industrial alienation, the film follows Henry (Jack Nance), a timid man adrift in a decaying urban landscape as he confronts domestic anxiety, sexual dread, and the terror of unwanted parenthood – as personified by an unforgettable, not-quite-human baby. Uncontainable fertility is both a trait of the film itself and a theme. At the time of its making, Lynch was becoming a father for the first time; the film wriggles with cosmic spermatozoa and compels a sickening dread of deformity and failure to thrive.Rendered in a stark black-and-white cloud of film grain and dominated by Lynch and sound designer Alan Splet’s mechanical drones and rumbles, ERASERHEAD is the apotheosis of Lynch’s moving painting passions, where dream dyslogic reigns over narrative causality — replete with man-made chickens and radiator-dwelling women.Join us for a rare opportunity to trace Lynch’s cinematic origin story on the big screen, a chance to experience — in a single evening — the arc of one of film's most incomparable artists.PRESENTED WITH INTERMISSIONDir. David LynchShorts Program: 1967-1974, 52 mins, United States, English, Unrated, Digital.ERASERHEAD, 1977, 89 mins, United States, English, Unrated, Digital.Special thanks to Janus Films.Tickets: $15 (All Screenings Are In-Person Only)Please email events@prs.org or phone 323-663-2167 with any questions. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/cbf68ad0-dff1-11f0-91ad-252c3bcf1605-rimg-w1200-h691-dcdadad8-gmir.jpg https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/cdb8ad30-dff1-11f0-80e5-950b0147526f-rimg-w976-h740-dcbdbebd-gmir.jpg https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/cfeca430-dff1-11f0-a6c8-9ba068c17b33-rimg-w1200-h675-dc030503-gmir.jpg https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events2/banners/d1dfe8b0-dff1-11f0-80e5-950b0147526f-rimg-w1200-h646-dc5a5a5a-gmir.jpg https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events4/banners/d4705790-dff1-11f0-80e5-950b0147526f-rimg-w1200-h675-dc060606-gmir.jpg https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events9/banners/d5fd8740-dff1-11f0-a6c8-9ba068c17b33-rimg-w1200-h675-dc050505-gmir.jpg https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/d8d697e0-dff1-11f0-a6c8-9ba068c17b33-rimg-w1200-h675-dc1b1b1b-gmir.jpg https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events10/banners/db2e4380-dff1-11f0-a6c8-9ba068c17b33-rimg-w1112-h740-dc1a1a1a-gmir.jpg ADVISORY DISCLAIMERWith some exception, The Philosophical Research Society’s 7th House Screenings does not typically provide advisory warnings about potentially upsetting content or subject matter, as sensitivities are particular to each viewer. 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