The Shrouds: new Cronenberg film is an elusive meditation on death, grief and environmental ethics
Collecting Art, take a look Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg is a leading figure in body horror, a film genre that explores disturbing and often grotesque aspects of the human body. Films such as The Fly 1986, eXistenZ 1999 and Crimes of the Future 2022 depict scenes of physical mutilation, illness and technological invasion to represent deeper fears about identity, society and the human condition. Through intense bodily imagery, Cronenberg’s films raise powerful questions about human relationships with technology and nature. As our relationship with technology rapidly evolves alongside escalating environmental catastrophe, there is a timely significance in these ideas. His latest film, The Shrouds, evokes the writing of Stacy Alaimo, a scholar known for her work exploring the connections between the human body, the environment, and the social forces that shape both. Alaimo’s work combines feminist and materialist ideas and examines how our bodies are physically connected to the w...