Dirtying Hands With David Cronenberg

Cinema auteur David Cronenberg needs little in the way of introduction. So I will merely state that my feature and full interview with the legendary director went up on Wired.com recently. And it was good.

Cronenberg Drifts From Tech Horror, but Shocks Remain
David Cronenberg has cooked up some of cinema's most compelling visions of technology's sometimes-violent interface with the human body. From his first full-length feature, 1975's Shivers, to Eastern Promises, recently released on DVD, the Canadian director has steadily stripped away the layers of the human condition to reveal its sexual and social dependencies on both the organic and inorganic. He's also creeped out millions... MORE @ WIRED

Body Language: An Interview With David Cronenberg
"A gun is not intimate, you know? Even if you're standing three feet away from someone, you can abstract that person, who is at a real distance from you. But if you have to stick a knife in someone, you're going to feel their blood, you're going to feel their sinews, and you're going to smell their breath. It's a very intimate thing, and you have to be the certain kind of person who can and would do that. In a way, it's actually scarier and has much more impact.

Think of it: We're in a very bizarre era right now where snuff porn that never really existed before is now available, via Muslim extremists mostly. But if you want to see beheadings or stonings, you can see them any time you want on your computer, which brings it close to home. And it's low tech too: Not the internet, but a woman being stoned to death. What could be more primitive that that? And you can see it if you want. It's quite scary and strange, but also very intimate"... MORE @ WIRED

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