In retrospect it can be easily traced back to a childhood trauma (the death of his father to cancer, which took place in a painful and slow) the 'morbid, murky origin of the vein that stands out clearly in every movie by David Cronenberg. E 'likely to think, however, that cancer, a disease which by definition causes mutations in human cells, affected (at least with regard to the mechanism of mutation and degeneration of the body) to a great extent the imagination of Cronenberg.
Born March 15, 1943 in Toronto by a family of Jewish descent, he enrolled in the Faculty of Science, "University of Toronto, where he could develop his interests in science first, dealing mainly insects, literary and then, when he moved to the Faculty of Letters. Here begins his journey of author (and we'll see how this term is correct and make good the artistic dimension of Cronenberg) and his passion for science fiction and horror: he writes, in fact, a large number of science fiction, It proposes the publication in magazines. Before graduating in English Language and Literature Cronenberg has a way to shoot two short films, both in 16mm, "Transference" (1966) and "From the drain" (1967). Follow the first film in 35mm, "Stereo" (1969), then "Crimes of the Future" (1970). At this point a brief period as director of television series and then a trip to Europe deter him from movies, but soon after the trip ... ricomicia
"I think the people making the film is drawn from the fantasy movie because creativity and inventiveness of them. "
David Cronenberg's first commercial feature film," The Shivers "(The Parasite Murders / Shivers / They Came From Within), and 1975: the film is so much outrageous, for the time, from deserve a parliamentary question. The theme is strong now: pests, diseases and sex invade the screen, in a cocktail strong, evocative and hard to forget. Both elicit from Martin Scorsese, after seeing the film at the Edinburgh festival in 1975: "(...) The opening attraction was established by the work of someone who had never heard of him - nothing unusual in this - David Cronenberg called. The title was The Shivers. (...) When it was over I thought that I liked. But a year later, I was still there and I thought I was talking to all those who were to hear ( ...), perhaps as a way to exorcise images of David Cronenberg. Well, I've never not exorcised. "
The story highlights some of the issues that Cronenberg will develop it later: a scientist discovers a parasite that is injected in the human body for healing, it actually turns out to be an aphrodisiac from the devastating effects that propagates in the same manner of diseases Venereal. Of course the fight against the infection that results is useless, and the whole world eventually becomes infected.
scientist / researcher (not necessarily a doctor or a scientist tout court) who discovers, creates or experiences to understand the operation and limitations of the human body in order to better, improve, control or cure ... this theme cuts across every film Cronenberg, from the beginning today. It arrives on time of rebellion or the failure of the body: the parasites of "Shiver" are revealed in a terrifying reality venereal disease, the tissue graft "neutral" in "Rabid" should be used to reconstruct the digestive tract soon turn into a new body that specializes in sucking blood from other humans, treatment with which in "The Brood" is treated the star means that they bore the asexual monsters and murderers, further experiments to equip the enormous psychic powers and telepathy "Scanner" that eventually rebelled against their creators, who are caring for brain tumors affect the transmission of "Videodrome", the faculty (who looks like a gift) and you can know the future of men in "The Dead Zone" will result in an ultimate sacrifice to prevent the emergence of a new tyranny, a simple experiment makes an unexpected a transporter Metaforme man who tried in "The Fly", plus the psychological drama behind "Dead Ringers" that will bring ruin to the players linked to the use of drugs and hallucinations caused by it and alienation hitting the star of "Naked Lunch", the duplicity of the human causes of the drama "M. Butterfly" the pleasure derived from the experiences extreme features "Crash" and virtual reality that becomes invasive permeates "eXistenZ" ...
A vast and varied collection of aberrations, monstrosity, degeneration, obsessions, dramas ...
"For me, a director who does not write his own stuff is an artist incomplete. "
David Cronenberg
Not all of Cronenberg films are memorable, mind you. But a great value of the Canadian director is to not have ever made movies they will return to the economic or critical. He always preferred his "obsessions", taking on the big screen works controversial and difficult reading and interpretation, or even difficult to watch, disturbing. This is because, unlike other filmmakers, Cronenberg seems to be able to give his works an extra dimension: besides the classic ones (audio and video), in fact, are traffic (virtually, of course), making this vision of his film a more immersive experience than normal, makes sense, smell and taste. The aesthetic of dirt, in fact. The exaltation of the flesh, moisture, sweat, anointed. Bodies and body fluids that assail the viewer, surrounded him, forcing him to surrender. A barrage of disturbing images, and especially troublesome concepts, which are clearly imagination, which surely cause discomfort, which are perceived as alien to our everyday life but that are representations of something that might one day hope away, be.
Cronenberg has had the great defect of being always, always, a step forward a bit 'shifted to the space limit of perception by everyone used sex, disease onset and mutations, human intelligence, technology and hallucinations in the years of maturation, reaching to touch the almost unknown and treacherous territories of the human psyche, life and death, love and jealousy.
"The man has never accepted the world as it is, by contrast, has always tried to change it. "
David Cronenberg Filmography
shorts in 16mm
1967 1966 Transfer Feature Films From the Drain
Stereo
1969 1970 1971
Crimes of the Future Jimmy Ritchie Sculptor
1975 The Shivers - Shiver
1977 Rabid, bloodlust - Rabid
1979 Fast Company
1979 Brood, the evil brood - Brood
1981 Scanners - Scanners Videodrome
1983 - 1983
Videodrome The Dead Zone - The dead zone
1986 The Fly - The Fly
1988 Ringers - Dead Ringers
1991 Naked Lunch - Naked Lunch
1993 M Butterfly - M Butterfly
1996 Crash - Crash
eXsitenZ 1999 - 1987
eXsitenZ
another Friday the 13th TV series (episode Faith healer)
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