Rabbits (2002)
Directed by David Lynch
A story of a group of humanoid rabbits and their depressive, daily life. The plot includes Suzie ironing, Jane sitting on a couch, Jack walking in and out of the apartment, and the occasional solo singing number by Suzie or Jane. At one point the rabbits also make contact with their “leader”.
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What critics compared Rabbits to
The constant telephone ringing, as seen in Lynch’s short film series, “Rabbits,” Dominik creates an expressionistic and lyrical Lynchian picture to portray the duality of a woman.
David Lynch is the best example: a filmmaker who has long made highly experimental shorts that then inform his (relatively) more accessible narrative work—and occasionally, as in the "Rabbits" sequence from his 2006 Inland Empire, uses those shorts within the long-form work.
He started production on the film as early as 2001, shooting the “Rabbits” sitcom right after (and with some cast members of) Mulholland Drive, and completed it in Poland as late as January of this year.
No plot summary can capture all the salient elements of "Inland Empire" -- the hopscotching from Los Angeles to the snowbound city of Lodz in Poland; the cryptic fragments of thriller; the interpolations from "Rabbits," Lynch's Dada-style Internet serial; the eerie dance number featuring a bunch of Hollywood Boulevard hookers performing the Locomotion.
A Polish woman watches bits of Lynch’s funny-scary Internet series Rabbits (three actors in bunny heads trading gnomic dialogue as the laugh track bursts irrelevantly) and weeps.
In the latest Film Comment Amy Taubin reports that Lynch made for Lynchland, a Web site available only to subscribers, "a sitcom series, Rabbits, and the exceptionally crude and brutal (in form and content) animated series Dumbland, which is basically about wife-beating."
No single story thread can be found here, although certain elements are revisited again and again -- Polish circus men and prostitutes, the production of a cursed movie, rabbit-people (who are apparently from one of your recent shorts, called Rabbits), screwdrivers, the message "AXXON-N."
The look and feel of the bunny world is haunting, funny, and evocative (paying members of Lynch's Web site can get the idea by watching eight short videos titled "Rabbits").