If you're reading this review in the first place then you've read the short IMDb summary which reads, "A man approaches a woman in a field." Good description as that is essentially what happens. Jack Fisk (David Lynch's best friend) wears a ghoulish pale white face in the vein of Carnival of Souls. He runs across a field somewhere to a girl (Peggy Lynch) sitting down. Such a premise could have gone in multiple ways. I could imagine this same scenario in a romantic way but for Lynch it's all based on fear. The pale white face paint the man wears, the music that plays, the way that he just stands over the woman after he's gone up to her. It is all very eerie. What makes it more so is how he begins pulling flowers out of his pants which couldn't be more disturbing. The film ends with Fisk looking at the camera abruptly. Given the fact that it's Lynch and how abstract it obviously is it's very open to interpretation, though I'll not use this space to explain my view on what the film means. I believe this was Lynch's second short film and it's a lot better than his first.
Review of Absurd Encounter with Fear
