A collection of visionary director David Lynch's short films from the first 29 years of his career is accompanied by a special introduction to each film by the director himself.

This collection of David Lynch's short films cover the first 29 years of his career. Each film is given a special introduction by the director himself. His earliest underground films Six Figures Getting Sick (1966), The Alphabet (1968), The Grandmother (1970) and The Amputee (1974) are showcased as well as two requisitioned works well into his successful career The Cowboy and the Frenchman (1988) and his addition for Lumière and Company (1995).—Daniel Jos. Leary

Composed of six of David Lynch's earliest and rarest works, "The Short Films of David Lynch" is a comprehensive DVD collection supervised by the American filmmaker himself. With the die-hard Lynch completist in mind, this assemblage of chronologically listed short films interweaves each project with brief interviews, fascinating insight, and unexpected "Easter eggs". While at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, David Lynch came up with Six Men Getting Sick (1967), a 40-second loop of regurgitation, and three years later, he filmed The Alphabet (1969), a nightmarish vision. Then, in 1970, Lynch created the dark fable of The Grandmother (1970), and in 1974, he devised The Amputee (1974). The collection concludes with the western comedy, The Cowboy and the Frenchman (1988), the second episode in the Les Français vus par (1988) TV mini-series, and David Lynch's contribution to the Lumière et compagnie (1995) anthology, Premonition Following an Evil Deed (1995).—Nick Riganas