By Pale Rider

David Lynch's The Amputee 1974

Written and Directed by David Lynch
Cinematography by Herb Cardwell
Starring Catherine Coulson (Woman), David Lynch (Doctor)
Running Time 5 minutes

 It is also listed in his Coffee Table Book His friend Fred Elmes – with whom he was working on Eraserhead – had to test the quality of some new film material. Lynch persuaded Elmes to let him direct a short film: The Amputee. It showed a woman (Catherine Coulson) without legs on a chair writing a letter and a male nurse (David Lynch) bandaging her stumps.

When the AFI executives saw the short film instead of test pictures, according to an anecdote, one of them said that only "that Lynch" can be responsible for that.

The Amputee was also the name of a project Catherine Coulson (the Log Lady from Twin Peaks) said she and Lynch were working on in May '93:

One upcoming project once again pairs Coulson with Lynch, this time with both of them in front of the camera. "David and I are acting in a project called 'The Amputee.' I can't say anymore, because I want it to be a surprise."

(excerpt from: LOGGING IN: Log Lady Catherine E. Coulson talks about David Lynch's 'Twin Peaks' and San Jose Rep's 'Rumor' San Jose Metro, May 20-26, 1993)

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The GrandmotherWritten, Directed, Filmed and Animated by David Lynch
Financed by an American Film Institute GrantAssistant Script Consultants: Margaret Lynch, C.K. Williams
Music and Music Effects: Tractor
Sound Editing and Mixing: Alan Splet
Sound Effects: David Lynch, Margaret Lynch, Robert Chadwick, Alan Splet
Still Photography: Doug Randall

Cast: Richard White (Boy), Dorothy Mc Giniss (Grandmother), Virginia Maitland (Mother), Robert Chadwick (Father)

Running Time 34 minutes
16 mm, Color

[the script was] "very weird…it was just little images and stuff, sort of like shorthand and poetry."

"I painted the entire third floor of my house black to make a 34-minute abstract film called "The Grandmother," about a disturbed boy who plants a seed which grows into a loving grandma."

"There's a guy a projectionist, who will not see this film [Eraserhead], and he couldn't stand to see the film I made before this, The Grandmother. It would do something to him inside that he could not stand. It wasn't the film at all, it just triggered something. Everybody has a subconscious and they put a lid on it. There's things in there. And then along comes something, and something bobs up. I don't know if that's good."

 
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