In a nameless city deluged by a continuous rain… three rabbits live with a fearful mystery.

In Memory of David Lynch (1946–2025)

A master of the subconscious, a conjurer of nightmares, and an architect of the unknowable—David Lynch changed cinema forever. From Eraserhead to Blue Velvet, from the TV Series Twin Peaks to Mulholland Drive, his work defied logic, embraced mystery, and tunnelled deep into the hidden corridors of human fear. Now, in tribute, we turn to Rabbits—one of his strangest, most unsettling experiments.

Rabbits: The Sitcom from Hell

In a dimly lit room, with sounds of distant thunder in the background we meet three figures in oversized rabbit heads. They speak, but their words don’t fit together. The laughter track swells—not with joy, but with menace. The walls feel closer than they should, and we increasingly have the feeling something is wrong.

Originally screened as 8 separate mini episodes each lasting 5-7 minutes, Rabbits is a nightmare disguised as a sitcom, a cryptic puzzle with an undercurrent of dread. A male rabbit (Jack), a female (Jane), and another female (Suzy) live together in a cramped, shadowy apartment, exchanging eerie, fragmented dialogue as if reading from a script they don’t understand. The laughter comes, but no jokes are told. A door opens, yet no one arrives. A voice in the dark murmurs words you shouldn’t have heard.

Is this a vision of purgatory, or a fractured dream? A surveillance feed from some forgotten dimension? Lynch never explains, but the feeling remains: Rabbits is something to be experienced, not understood. With the 8 mini episodes strung together to make one 43 minute long piece, this is by far one of the longer short films on ShortFilmWeb, but still falls well within the genre, and anyway – it’s David Lynch. Enjoy!

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