David Cronenberg
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
Forsythe: Roger, I had a very disturbing dream last night. In this dream I found myself making love to a strange man. Only I'm having trouble you see, because he's old... and dying... and he smells bad, and I find him repulsive. But then he tells me that everything is erotic, that everything is sexual. You know what I mean? He tells me that even old flesh is erotic flesh. That disease is the love of two alien kinds of creatures for each other. That even dying is an act of eroticism. That talking is sexual. That breathing is sexual. That even to physically exist is sexual. And I believe him, and we make love beautifully. |
Related e |
Featured: |
David Paul Cronenberg (born March 15, 1943) is a Canadian film director and occasional actor. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or venereal horror genre. This style of filmmaking explore people's fears of bodily transformation and infection. In his films, the psychological is typically intertwined with the physical. In the first half of his career, he explored these themes mostly through horror and science fiction, although his work has since expanded beyond these genres.
Contents |
Filmography
As director
- Feature films
- Stereo (1969)
- Crimes of the Future (1970)
- Shivers (1975)
- Rabid (1977)
- Fast Company (1979)
- The Brood (1979)
- Scanners (1981)
- Videodrome (1983)
- The Dead Zone (1983)
- The Fly (1986)
- Dead Ringers (1988)
- Naked Lunch (1991)
- M. Butterfly (1993)
- Crash (1996)
- eXistenZ (1999)
- Spider (2002)
- A History of Violence (2005)
- Eastern Promises (2007)
- A Dangerous Method (2011)
- Cosmopolis (2012)
- Maps to the Stars (2014)
- Short films
- Transfer (1966)
- From the Drain (1967)
- Camera (2000)
- To Each His Own Cinema (Chacun son cinéma) (2007)
- Television series
- Programme X
- episode: * Secret Weapons (1972)
- Peep Show
- episodes: The Victim (1975) & The Lie Chair [1975]
- Teleplay
- episode: The Italian Machine (1976) watch it here (RealMedia)
- Friday the 13th: The Series
- episode: 1.12 Faith Healer (1987)
- Scales of Justice
- episodes: Regina vs Horvath (1990) & Regina vs Logan (1990)
- Television spots
- Jim Ritchie Sculptor (1971)
- Letter from Michelangelo (1971)
- Tourettes (1971)
- Don Valley (1972)
- Fort York (1972)
- Lakeshore (1972)
- Winter Garden (1972)
- Scarborough Bluffs (1972)
- In the Dirt (1972)
- Commercials
- Hydro
- Client: Ontario Hydro
- Product: Energy conservation
- Agency: Burghardt Wolowich Crunkhorn
- Production company: The Partners' Film Company Ltd.
- Format: 4 x 30-second commercials
- Titles: Hot Showers, Laundry, Cleaners, Timers
- Caramilk
- Client: William Neilson Ltd.
- Product: Cadbury Caramilk
- Agency: Scali McCabe, Sloves (Canada) Ltd.
- Production company: The Partners' Film Company Ltd.
- Format: 2 x 30-second commercials
- Titles: Bistro, Surveillance
- Nike
- Client: Nike International
- Product: Nike Air 180
- Agency: Wieden and Kennedy
- Production company: The Partners' Film Company Ltd.
- Format: 1 x 15-second/4 x 30-second commercials
- Title: Transformation
As producer
- Dead Ringers (1988)
- Crash (1996)
- I'm Losing You (1998)
- Cosmopolis (2012)
As actor
- Into the Night (1985)
- The Fly (1986, cameo)
- Nightbreed (1990)
- To Die For (1995, cameo)
- Blood and Donuts (1995)
- The Stupids (1996, cameo)
- Extreme Measures (1996, cameo)
- Last Night (1998)
- Resurrection (1999)
- Jason X (2002)
- Alias (TV) (2003) (Episodes "Remnants" and "Conscious")
- Barney's Version (2010, cameo)