Four Unloved Women, Adrift on a Purposeless Sea, Experience the Ecstasy of Dissection

Long live the new flesh. Surgery is the new sex. These Cronenbergian epigrams come together in a tableau that reimagines the ecstasy and eroticism of Renaissance sculpture for the future. Or is it already the present? Four women in repose, floating on air mattresses in the sea. Instead of gleaming marble, their smooth limbs, delicately positioned hands and enraptured faces are of putrid-looking plastic. Their nakedness would once have inflamed the beholder’s desire but that is no longer enough. What excites us lies beneath. So we dig in, and the cries of seagulls mingle with sighs of pleasure. (Giovanni Marchini Camia)

This film will be shown as part of the screening SHORT FILM PROGRAM 5: INCIDENCES.