Six Men Getting Sick (Six Times)
The film was created on a budget of $200 and upon its screening it was well received by Lynch's peers, earning the Dr. William S. Biddle Cadwalader Memorial Prize at the school's experimental-painting-and-sculpture contest.The title, which according to the liner notes of The Short Films of David Lynch "expresses what little plot there is",[1] relates to the painting's animation as it depicts "six abstracted figures appearing in outline."[4] Adding a dysmorphic figure of a man to the center of the canvas, Lynch "hear[d] a little wind and [saw] a little movement",[5] which led him to the concept of creating an animated film from a painting.[4] In a downtown Philadelphia hotel owned by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Lynch began shooting Six Men Getting Sick with Jack Fisk, who subsequently became a frequent collaborator.[18] In 2014 the creators of the YouTube video series Marble Hornets stated that Lynch's short films, including Six Men Getting Sick, were a major influence on their own work.