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Eraserhead (released in France as The Labyrinth Man) is a 1977 film written and directed by David Lynch and starring Jack Nance. The film has become a cult classic due to its surreal imagery, strange soundtrack and its generally dreamlike aura. In 2004, the film was deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. Synopsis Eraserhead is a difficult film to understand, and is open to various interpretations. The setting of the film seems to be a sort of industrial wasteland. Electric lights continually flicker, sewer pipes constantly leak and a mechanical humming sound is ubiquitous. Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. Henry Spencer (Nance) is a printer (although, for the length of the film, he is "on vacation") who gives off an air of nervousness but makes few direct qualms about his life situation. After his girlfriend Mary (Charlotte Stewart) gives birth to a strange, worm-like baby, he is forced to marry her. They move into his one room apartment. The baby continually cries and hisses. After Mary leaves, Henry has to take care of the baby himself and finds himself involved in a series of strange events, including a bizarre encounter with a woman with a face somewhat like that of a chipmunk who lives in his radiator (she sings the iconic song "In Heaven") and a sexual liaison with his attractive next door neighbor. The title comes from a fantasy scene where Henry’s head falls off and bits of his brains are used to make erasers on pencils at a factory. Mysterious worms appear in many of these sequences and are often seen as a metaphor for sin, although other interpretations are possible. In this particular interpretation (i.e., the worms as a metaphor for sin), their resemblance to sperm cells indicates that the premarital sex that lead to the baby was Henry’s first and most troubling sin. Eventually, Henry grows frustrated with his life and cuts the baby’s bandages in an attempt to kill it. This causes the apartment’s electricity to overload. The last scene features Henry being embraced by the Lady in the Radiator, perhaps as a symbol of death. Filming Lynch and Nance on the set of Eraserhead Enlarge Lynch and Nance on the set of Eraserhead Lynch calls Eraserhead his “Philadelphia Story,” emphasizing the fears and anxieties he experienced living in Philadelphia, attending the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Like most U.S. cities, Philadelphia was in the midst of a sizable urban sprawl at the time, which may explain the vast landscape of factories in Eraserhead. Another definitive influence on the film was the pregnancy of Lynch’s wife. Lynch has described the film his attempt to deal with the anxieties of first time fatherhood. Eraserhead developed from Gardenback, a script about adultery Lynch wrote during his first year at the Centre for Advanced Film Studies at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. The script for Eraserhead was only 22 pages long. Because of this, the unusual plot and the inexperienced director (Lynch had made three short films at the time), no movie studio expressed interest in the project. Lynch won a $10,000 grant from the AFI. Lynch built most of the sets in the basement of the AFI conservatory. The greatest mystery surrounding Eraserhead has been the creation of the baby. A long-standing urban legend states that Lynch created the baby from an embalmed cow fetus. To this day, Lynch refuses to discuss how the baby was really made. According to one source, Lynch also used human umbilical cords gained from a hospital where a cast member worked for some of the "worms" [1] Lynch struggled to fund the film. Aside from the AFI grant, the movie was financed by friends and family, including actress Sissy Spacek, who was married to Lynch’s childhood friend Jack Fisk (Fisk appears in Eraserhead as “the man in the planet.”) Lynch claims he got a paper route to help finance it.