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Eraserhead is a 1977 American surrealist

Surrealism

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film and the first feature film of David Lynch

David Lynch

David Keith Lynch is an American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor. Known for his surrealist films, he has developed his own unique cinematic style, which has been dubbed "Lynchian", and which is characterized by its dream imagery and meticulous sound...

, who wrote, produced and directed. Lynch began working on the film at the AFI Conservatory

AFI Conservatory

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, which gave him a $10,000 grant to make the film after he had begun working there following his 1971 move to Los Angeles

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. The grant was not sufficient to complete the film and, as a result, Lynch worked on Eraserhead intermittently, using money from odd jobs and from friends and family, including boyhood friend Jack Fisk

Jack Fisk

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, a production designer and the husband of actress Sissy Spacek

Sissy Spacek

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, until its 1977 release.

Eraserhead polarized and baffled many critics and film-goers, but has become a cult classic

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