The new short from director David Lynch is exactly what you'd expect. Thankfully. "A short video featuring my friends the ants along with cheese, etc." is how director David Lynch describes his latest film, a short that should come with a disclaimer warning that objects in the picture may prove itchier than they appear. An almost still image of a head of cheese (or a cheese resembling a human head), Ant Head depicts an army of ants devouring the lactose remains. An out-of-focus, pulsating blob is how the short appropriately opens, the ominous figure eventually revealing itself to be a head of cheese in which three slots have been gutted to resemble two eyes and a mouth (and a crevice in the center resembling a swollen nose). From there we watch—and listen to one-and-a-half tracks off of the album Thought Gang by Lynch and frequent collaborator and composer Angelo Badalamenti—as a plethora of ants get down to business and take up shop in the holes carved out like a mozzarella pumpkin. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Wednesday, 14 November, 2018