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METAMORPHIC INSIGHT INTO DREAMS (AFTER) #0410/ 2010
(  Satoshi Kinoshita )
| Series: | Paintings: Landscape 2 | | Medium: | White and black gesso on non-stretched canvas | | Size (inches): | 157.5 x 70.9 (prior to stretching) | | Size (mm): | 4000 x 1800 (prior to stretching) | | Catalog #: | PA_0146 | | Description: | Signed, titled, date, copyright in magic ink on the reverse.
Normally this painting is shown horizontally – the left hand side of this website image is the top of the painting - but it does not really matter, does it?
In Heaven - from David Lynch's movie "Eraserhead" (1976)
Lady in the Radiator: [singing] In Heaven, everything is fine.
In Heaven, everything is fine.
In Heaven, everything is fine.
You've got your good things, and I've got mine.
In Heaven, everything is fine.
In Heaven, everything is fine.
In Heaven, everything is fine.
You've got your good things, and you've got mine.
In Heaven, everything...is fine.
-en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eraserhead
"In Heaven" is a song originally part of the soundtrack to the David Lynch film Eraserhead, where it is sung by the Lady in the Radiator (Laurel Near). The song was written and performed for the film by Peter Ivers, and was included on the soundtrack album.
-en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Heaven
Eraserhead -
Eraserhead is a surrealistic film written and directed by David Lynch, and released in 1977. In 1971, Lynch moved to Los Angeles to pursue an MFA (Masters of Fine Arts) degree at the AFI Conservatory. At the Conservatory, Lynch began working on his first feature-length film, Eraserhead, using a $10,000 grant from the AFI. The grant was not sufficient to complete the film and, as a result, Lynch worked on Eraserhead intermittently until its release in 1977. Lynch used money from friends and family, including boyhood friend Jack Fisk, a production designer and the husband of actress Sissy Spacek, and from odd jobs to finish the film.
The film follows a short period of the life of Henry Spencer (Jack Nance), a printer on vacation. Henry discovers that his estranged girlfriend, Mary X (Charlotte Stewart), has given birth to a bizarrely deformed baby. He marries her, and, after a tumultuous and brief time living together, Mary leaves Henry who then cares for the ill baby himself. A bizarre sequence of events ensues, including visions of a woman in Henry's radiator dancing and stomping on small tadpole-like creatures, a tryst with the woman across the hall, and a dream sequence in which Henry's head is used to make pencil erasers.
Eraserhead polarized and baffled many critics and movie-goers, but has become a cult classic.[3] In 2004, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. Lynch has called it a "dream of dark and troubling things"[4] and his "most spiritual movie."[5]
Plot:
Eraserhead is set in the heart of an industrial center rife with urban decay. Henry Spencer is a printer who is "on vacation" for the duration of the story. The film begins with the mysterious Man in the Planet manipulating large mechanical levers while looking out of his window. As he does so, a ghostly flagellate-like creature emerges from the mouth of Henry, floating in space. The creature eventually flies away amidst images of rock formations, a circular opening, and bubbling fluid. In the industrial center, Henry receives a telephone invitation to have dinner with Mary X, his estranged girlfriend, and her family. At Mary's family's home, Henry is puzzled by a series of emotional outbursts by Mary's mother, the banal, disconnected conversation offered by her father, and a miniature roasted chicken he is given to carve, which kicks on his plate and oozes at the fork's touch. The dinner conversation at Mary's house is strained and awkward, after which Henry is cornered by Mary's mother and told that Mary has just had a baby after an abnormally short pregnancy. Henry is then obliged to marry her.
Mary and the baby move into Henry's one-room apartment. The baby is hideously deformed with a large snout-nose with slit nostrils, a pencil-thin neck, eyes on the sides of its head, no ears, and a limbless body covered in bandages. It continually whines throughout the night.
A sleep-deprived Mary abandons Henry and the baby (who also turns out to be sick). After Mary leaves, Henry must care for the baby by himself, and he becomes involved in a series of strange events. These include bizarre encounters with the Lady in the Radiator (Laurel Near); visions of the ominous Man in the Planet (Jack Fisk); and a sexual liaison with his neighbor, the Beautiful Girl Across the Hall (Judith Anna Roberts). The Lady in the Radiator is a woman with grotesquely distended cheeks who appears in his radiator, first doing a dance routine on a stage in which she shuffles and stomps on sperm or fetus-resembling creatures that fall from above, and then later singing a song that goes "In Heaven, everything is fine/ You've got your good things, and I've got mine" (with subtle variations).
In a dream sequence, Henry’s baby's head comes up from under Henry's head, popping it off of his neck, and replaces it. Henry's head sinks into a growing pool of blood on a tile floor, falls from the sky, and, finally, lands on an empty street and cracks open. A young boy finds Henry's broken head and takes it to a pencil factory, where Paul (Darwin Joston), the desk clerk, summons his ill-tempered boss to the front desk by repeatedly pushing a buzzer. The boss, angered by the summons, yells at Paul, but regains his composure when he sees what the little boy has brought. The boss and the boy carry the head to a back room where the Pencil Machine Operator takes a core sample of Henry's brain, assays it, and determines that it is a serviceable material for pencil erasers. The boy is then paid for bringing in Henry's head. The Pencil Machine Operator then sweeps the eraser shavings off of the desk and sends them billowing into the air.
After waking from this dream, Henry looks out his window and sees two men fighting in the street. He then seeks out the Beautiful Girl Across the Hall, but discovers that she is not home. The baby begins to cackle mockingly, and, shortly thereafter, Henry opens his door and sees the Beautiful Girl Across the Hall bringing another man back to her apartment. She looks at Henry, momentarily sees Henry's head transform into that of the baby, and appears frightened by her vision. Henry goes back into his apartment, takes a pair of scissors, and cuts open the baby's swaddling, which turn out to be part of its flesh (or simply what is holding all of its organs together). By cutting the swaddling, Henry splits open the baby's body and exposes its vital organs. As the baby screams in pain, Henry stabs one of its organs with the scissors. This action causes the apartment’s electricity to overload, and as the lights flicker on and off, a giant apparition of the baby's head materializes in the apartment. It then becomes a strange planet. The planet explodes, and through the hole in it we see the Man in the Planet struggling with a series of levers with sparks shooting from them when he pulls them, visibly burning his face. Henry is then seen with eraser shavings billowing behind his head. The last scene features Henry being embraced by the Lady in the Radiator. They are bathed in white light, and white noise builds to a crescendo, then stops as the screen goes black, and the credits begin to roll.
Production history:
Eraserhead developed from Gardenback, a script about adultery that Lynch wrote during his first year at the Centre for Advanced Film Studies at the American Film Institute (AFI) in Los Angeles.[6] The script for Eraserhead was only 21 pages long. Because of the film's unusual plot and Lynch's minimal directorial experience, no movie studio backed the project. Lynch eventually won a grant from AFI, and filmed most of it at Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills, which was at the time the headquarters of the American Film Institute.[7]
Aside from the AFI grant, the movie was financed by friends and family, including actress Sissy Spacek, wife of Lynch's childhood friend Jack Fisk. Because of the lack of reliable funds, Eraserhead was filmed intermittently from 1971 to 1976,[7] with sets disassembled and reassembled several times.
Characters:
Henry Spencer (Jack Nance) is a vacationing printer who lives alone in a small apartment. His only forms of entertainment are a record player and a fetish for dirt, plants, and worms. Henry is taciturn, but uses short, emotional outbursts when he does speak.
Mary X (Charlotte Stewart) is Henry's girlfriend, though he has not seen her for some time when the story begins. She lives with her parents and catatonic grandmother until she marries Henry and moves in with him for a short time.
Mr. X (Allen Joseph) and Mrs. X (Jeanne Bates) are Mary's parents. Mr. X is a pipe-fitter who boasts loudly to Henry about his role in plumbing the neighborhood and is seemingly oblivious to the emotional situation surrounding Mary's strange pregnancy and childbirth. Mrs. X, however, experiences frequent outbursts while Henry is visiting their home and eventually demands accountability of Henry.
The Beautiful Girl Across the Hall (Judith Anna Roberts) lives in the apartment across from Henry's and delivers the telephone message inviting Henry to dinner at Mary X's house at the beginning of the story. She serves as an object of desire for Henry.
The Lady in the Radiator (Laurel Near) appears to Henry in several visions. She has extremely bloated cheeks and performs song and dance routines on a checkered tile stage. In one such routine, she stomps on small, sperm-like creatures that fall onto her stage while she is dancing.
The Man in the Planet (Jack Fisk) is seen manipulating mechanical levers while observing Henry through a window at the beginning of the film, appearing to introduce an amphibious being into the world. Later in the film, after Henry kills the baby, the Man in the Planet appears again, this time struggling with the levers.
Notes:
1. ^ a b c d e Hoberman, J.; Jonathan Rosenbaum (1991). "Chapter 8". Midnight Movies. Da Capo Press. ISBN 0306804336. http://books.google.com/books?id=yiRH-NdN_cAC&pg=PA214&lpg=PA214&dq=
Hoberman+eraserhead&ots=pC3t7HRTgE&sig=C00ugBtRX3QxvHw5-V0AtL_jO1E.
2. ^ The Fantasy Film as Final Exam, a December 1984 review of Dune from Time
3. ^ Peary, Danny. Cult Movies, Delta Books, 1981. ISBN 0-517-20185-2
4. ^ Cinefantastique Barry Gifford Interview from lynchnet.com
5. ^ a b Lynch, David (2006). Catching the Big Fish. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin Group. ISBN 1585425400.
6. ^ "The City of Absurdity: David Lynch's Eraserhead". http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/2093/ehabout.html.
7. ^ a b c "A Dark Lens on America". The New York Times. 1990-01-14. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=
9C0CE0D6113FF937A25752C0A966958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print.
Bibliography:
* Hoberman, J.; Rosenbaum, Jonathan (1991). "Eraserhead". Midnight Movies. Da Capo Press. ISBN 0306804336.
* Fischer, Christian (2007) (in German). Traumkino – Zu Eraserhead von David Lynch. Verlag Dr. Kovac. ISBN 3830026927.
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