David Lynch has dug into the archive and uploaded his 2002 web series Rabbits to Youtube for your viewing pleasure.
The first instalment of Rabbits is available to watch now. The 15-minute short follows three anthropomorphic rabbits enacting a sitcom of sorts. Presented as a show set “In a nameless city deluged by a continuous rain… three rabbits live with a fearful mystery”. Voiced by Scott Coffey, Laura Elena Harring and Naomi Watts, it’s a kitchen sink drama that will have you rattled to your core.
Filmed entirely in David Lynch’s Hollywood backyard, Rabbits revolves around fragmentary conversations between three rabbits that are intermittently interrupted by a laugh track. If you needed further proof that canned laughter is the single creepiest concept willed into existence. This is it.
Check out the first instalment of David Lynch’s Rabbits:
Lynch has also shared an abundance of wacky, wonderful and weird short films. On July 2nd he uploaded his haunting one-minute short The 3Rs, a trailer penned for the 2011 Vienna film festival that features a rubber duck and a man beating a floor with a hammer soundtracked by a skin-crawling reverberation of buzzing insects.
He also unleashed Fire (Pożar), a 10-minute collaboration with composer Marek Zebrowski. A truly apocalyptic audiovisual masterpiece that marries Lynch’s signature nightmarish visual eye with Zebrowski’s chilling experimental music.
“The whole point of our experiment was that I would say nothing about my intentions and Marek would interpret the visuals in his own way,” Lynch said of Fire in a 2015 interview. “So I say it was a great successful experiment, and I loved the composition Marek wrote for the Penderecki String Quartet.”
