via YouTube/David Lynch TheaterFilm & TVNewsFilm & TV / NewsDavid Lynch shares a dark, minute-long short film via YouTube2011’s The 3Rs is about as chaotic and confusing as you’d expect it to beShareLink copied ✔️July 3, 2020July 3, 2020TextThom Waite During lockdown, David Lynch has blessed us with a surge of activity on his own YouTube channel, returning to his daily weather reports, sharing DIY tips (see: his handy tutorial on building a microphone stand), and uploading a Q&A in which he answers fan questions. Lynch has also been using the platform to share some of his shorter, more obscure films, such as his most recent upload (July 2): 2011’s The 3Rs. At just one minute long, the film was originally created as a trailer for the 2011 Vienna Film Festival, but that doesn’t mean the filmmaker held back. Instead, the short is a characteristically chaotic affair, featuring a disturbing scene with a rubber duck, a man beating the (seemingly sentient) floor with a hammer, and a frankly horrific soundtrack of buzzing insects. Other films on David Lynch’s YouTube channel include the first online release of 2015’s Fire (Pozar) – a 10-minute short written, directed, and animated by Lynch, with music by Marek Zebrowski – which was uploaded fairly early on the channel, May 20. Watch The 3Rs below. Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREBen Whishaw on the power of Peter Hujar’s photography: ‘It feels alive’Atropia: An absurdist love story set in a mock Iraqi military villageMeet the new generation of British actors reshaping Hollywood Sentimental Value is a raw study of generational traumaJosh Safdie on Marty Supreme: ‘One dream has to end for another to begin’Animalia: An eerie feminist sci-fi about aliens invading MoroccoThe 20 best films of 2025, rankedWhy Kahlil Joseph’s debut feature film is a must-seeJay Kelly is Noah Baumbach’s surreal, star-studded take on fameWatch: Owen Cooper on Adolescence, Jake Gyllenhaal and Wuthering HeightsOwen Cooper: Adolescent extremesIt Was Just An Accident: A banned filmmaker’s most dangerous work yet