ERASERHEAD IN A KNITTED SHOPPING BAG
Lili Koss
Bulgaria / France
During a ’90s summer, in an Eastern European town, 12-year-old cinephile Ro is fighting against her whole world to get a pirated VHS copy of Eraserhead.
SYNOPSIS
One summer in the ’90s, in an Eastern European town, we follow Ro, a 12-year-old cinephile who lives with her angry brother and her absent mother. She finds a bombastic headline in one of the dozen film magazines she has been stealing from her neighbour’s mailbox: “A real cinephile must have watched Eraserhead by David Lynch.” Ro is determined! The TV is ruled by her brother, the streets by bullies, spying neighbors and blistering heat, and the video store by the authoritative nerd. She will do anything to get that VHS into her bag and bring it home.
INTENTION
Eraserhead in a Knitted Shopping Bag is my first film and as such, it is very personal. I aim to tell a story about the passion for a dream as an opportunity for salvation. A story encapsulated in time in the life of cinema that we will never experience again, in a period of delicate transition in which the ’90s Eastern Europeans kids have made their first steps towards individuality, critical thinking and self-awareness. I plan to use David Lynch’s film because it is an avant-garde manual on how the unbearable bitter reality can give birth to a metaphor for warmth and comfort. It’s a unique film, with an incomparable sensibility and charge, and I believe Ro deserves to discover it as well as the kids her age that will watch our film. Eraserhead in a Knitted Shopping Bag can persuade both children and adults, that it may not be easy to change our life circumstances when they are less than ideal, but we can still find our own ways to add a flavor of vitality and positivity to it. “In Heaven / Everything is fine / You’ve got your good thing / And I’ve got mine”.
DIRECTOR
Lili Koss
Lili Koss graduated from New Bulgarian University in 2017 with a Bachelor in Film and TV Directing. Since then, she has been working in the industry as a Line and Creative Producer, AD, and Casting Director. She is interested in character-oriented, live-action films, and socio-cultural themes revolving around the topics of identity and belonging.
PRODUCER
Vanya Rainova
Vanya Rainova entered the world of filmmaking as co-writer and producer of Pride, which won the Grand Prix at the Clermont-Ferrand ISFF (2014) and an EFA nomination. She has written and/or produced shorts, documentaries, and features, which have competed in some of the world’s most prestigious festivals, including Locarno, IFFR, DokLeipzig, HotDocs, Vision du Reel, Tallinn Black Nights.
Genre
Coming of Age
Length
15 min
Language
Bulgarian
Shooting location
Bulgaria
Production companies
Portokal (Bulgaria), Little Big Story (France)
Estimated budget
€80.000
Secured funding
Bulgarian National Culture Fund - €11.000, Bulgarian National Film Center - €40.000
Looking for
Post-Production, Sales, Distribution