ERASERHEAD IN A NITTED SHOPPING BAG
Dir. by Lili Koss
SYNOPSIS:
In the slow, sticky summer of late-90s Eastern Europe, twelve-year-old Ro sets out to procure a pirated copy of Eraserhead by David Lynch. Her journey—through crumbling friendships, stolen cigarettes, and VHS-era power games—unfolds in a world where childhood slips quietly into something else, and cinema becomes the only available glimpse of escape.
DIRECTOR
Lili Koss
ORIGINAL LANGUAGE
Bulgarian
LENGTH
19'
YEAR
2025
COUNTRY
Bulgaria
GENRE
Drama, Coming of age
PRODUCERS
Vanya Rainova,
Victoria Mitreva (Portokal)
“FOR HER FIRST SHORT FILM, LILI KOSS TAKES US TO 1990S BULGARIA, INTO A WORLD WITHOUT ADULTS, WHERE CHILDREN GROW UP FAR FROM THE INNOCENCE WE MIGHT EXPECT. IN INDUSTRIAL LANDSCAPES, BATHED IN THE GLOW OF SUMMER, A YOUNG GIRL’S SEARCH FOR A VHS TAPE OF ERASERHEAD TAKES ON THE APPEARANCE OF A CINEPHILE AND EXISTENTIAL QUEST, AS IF DRAWN TO DAVID LYNCH’S DARK LIGHT, TO WHOM THE DIRECTOR PAYS A MOVING TRIBUTE.”
– Interview with Lili Koss, Eraserhead in a Knitted Shopping Bag director
