Phallic Vegetables and Nightmare Babies

Phallic Vegetables and Nightmare Babies

3 Episodes

Together again: Suzan Pitt’s psychosexual fantasia and David Lynch’s otherworldly debut were paired as a cult-favorite double bill on the midnight-movie circuit in 1979.

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Phallic Vegetables and Nightmare Babies
  • Introduction

    Episode 1

  • Asparagus

    Episode 2

    Directed by Suzan Pitt • 1979 • United States

    Suzan Pitt's animated short throws open the doors of perception onto a shape-shifting vision of polymorphous sexuality. A landmark in the history of independent animation, ASPARAGUS is a mesmerizing exploration of the artist's inner world, and a view...

  • Eraserhead

    Episode 3

    Directed by David Lynch • 1977 • United States
    Starring Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Judith Anna Roberts

    David Lynch’s 1977 debut feature, ERASERHEAD, is both a lasting cult sensation and a work of extraordinary craft and beauty. With its mesmerizing black-and-white photography by Frederick El...