THEME EXPLORATION

bodily experience

12 films · 2 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Naissant
Naissant
1964 · Stephen Dwoskin
Rocco and His Brothers
Rocco and His Brothers
1960 · Luchino Visconti
Blissfully Yours
Blissfully Yours
2002 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Rat Mouse Thief
Rat Mouse Thief
1999 · Sebastián Cordero
The Time That Remains
The Time That Remains
2009 · Elia Suleiman
The Year of the Everlasting Storm
The Year of the Everlasting Storm
2021 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul & David Lowery & Jafar Panahi
Babai
Babai
2015 · Visar Morina
Tourettes
Tourettes
1971 · David Cronenberg
J’ai pas sommeil
J’ai pas sommeil
1994 · Claire Denis
Lucky Miles
Lucky Miles
2007 · Michael James Rowland
Nowhere in Africa
Nowhere in Africa
2002 · Caroline Link
Jerichow
Jerichow
2009 · Christian Petzold
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
David Cronenberg Canada

His films obsessively explore bodily transformation, mutation, and the visceral horror of flesh as a site of psychological and technological change.

 Claire Denis France

She crafts deeply sensory cinema that privileges bodily presence, tactile imagery, and the physical manifestation of desire and suffering.