Case file 011969
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Stereo
Telepathy, concrete spaces and the Canadian Academy of Erotic Inquiry.
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Fourteen films. A lifetime of worlds to explore.
INSIDE THE ARCHIVE
The details that build a world.
Go beyond the frame into the objects, spaces and creative decisions that shape Cronenberg’s worlds. Scripts, production photographs and firsthand accounts reveal how these films were imagined, built and brought to life.
David Cronenberg / Film archive
Fourteen films. Further in.
Choose a film and go deeper: production histories, artists, performances, objects and the ideas that give each world its force.
Open nowStereoCrimes of the FutureShiversRabidThe BroodScannersVideodromeThe FlyDead RingersNaked LunchCrasheXistenZCrimes of the FutureThe Shrouds
Case file 021970
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Crimes of the Future
Adrian Tripod, the House of Skin and the institutions of a changing body.
Open dossier ↗Case file 031975
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Shivers
Starliner Towers: the architecture and circulation of infection.
Open dossier ↗Case file 041977
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Rabid
Surgical intervention, the Keloid Clinic and an expanding epidemic.
Open dossier ↗Case file 051979
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The Brood
Psychoplasmics, family rupture and the physical work behind the creatures.
Open dossier ↗Case file 061981
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Scanners
ConSec, Biocarbon, Ephemerol and the machinery of psychic control.
Open dossier ↗Case file 071983
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Videodrome
Civic TV, Spectacular Optical and the objects that turn signal into flesh.
Open dossier ↗Case file 081986
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The Fly
The telepods, Brundlefly and the design of a bodily transformation.
Open dossier ↗Case file 091988
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Dead Ringers
The Mantle twins, instruments, twinning and the choreography of doubling.
Open dossier ↗Case file 101991
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Naked Lunch
Interzone, insect typewriters and the material worlds of William S. Burroughs.
Open dossier ↗Case file 111996
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Crash
Cars, prostheses, collisions and the tension between skin and metal.
Open dossier ↗Case file 121999
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eXistenZ
Game-pods, bioports and the uncertain boundaries of designed realities.
Open dossier ↗Case file 132022
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Crimes of the Future
Performance surgery, the National Organ Registry and new bodily systems.
Open dossier ↗Case file 142024
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The Shrouds
GraveTech, mediated grief and the images that remain after death.
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