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Do you recognize this picture? Probably not, and yet, if you're familiar with David Lynch's universe, it should haunt you... This is indeed one of only existing documents on the mythical scenes cut from "Eraserhead" (20 minutes in total), removed by the director himself after the disastrous global premiere on March 19, 1977 in Los Angeles, the only public screening where the film was seen in its entirety. The sequence in question, narrated by these few privileged viewers, shows Henry, intrigued by strange noises downstairs, opening the door to a neighboring apartment to flee to discover some kind of sadomasochist scene, with two women strapped to a bed and a man armed with an electric box. A set photo also shows an ever-smiling Lynch directing the set. The short version of the film, the one that everyone knows, is therefore to this day the official "director's cut", never edited with the exception of its recent restoration and, knowing the artist's particular control over his work, it is very likely that there will never be another. And yet........ What mystery lies in these unseen scenes... Could there have been an "Eraserhead" other than the one that upset our film dreams? What other world would he have opened? Only Lynch knows, the masterpiece of this minimalist and cosmic cathedral, this definitive film, sealed like an airtight cube at 1:29.