Towner Cine Club: Eraserhead

Towner Cine Club is a chance for you to catch classic films back on the big screen, all presented with an introduction by Henry Jordan. Whether it’s arthouse oddities, cult classics, old favourites or new discoveries, we’ll be showing something exciting every month at Towner Cinema.

Henry Jordan works at Towner as a Duty Manager and helps with the day-to-day operations of the cinema, as well as hosting Towner Cine Club. He studied English and Film Studies at University of Exeter, which included a study abroad year that he took at University of South Florida in Tampa, USA. During Henry’s time at university, he discovered his core fields of interest, among them para-cinema, surrealism and anti-literature.

Before Towner, Henry worked at the Arts Picturehouse in Cambridge, where he was a regular host for their sell out quiz nights and hosted a Q&A with Dame Pippa Harris for her film Empire of Light. He also was a regular on the Cambridge Film Show, has been published in The Quietus and still writes for The Quite Nerdy Blog, his blog about pop culture that has been running since 2014.

Before Blue Velvet, before Mulholland Drive, the late David Lynch’s 1977 inimitable feature debut is a lasting cult sensation and a work of extraordinary originality, craft and beauty.

In a dream of dark and troubling things, a young man discovers his girlfriend is pregnant. The responsibilities and pressures of fatherhood soon unfurl around him in a spectacularly surreal fashion. 

Shot in striking black and white, featuring unique, industrial-inspired production design and an ambient soundtrack, Eraserhead is unfiltered Lynch, a visionary nocturnal odyssey continues to haunt American cinema like no other film.

"Even after a career full of masterpieces, David Lynch’s debut film feels just as radical today as it must have done fifty years ago. Don’t lose your head trying to decode the narrative, go with the flow on this haunting, funny and deeply surreal journey into a fatherhood unlike any other."