The film is a NSFW single-take short involving an unlicensed surgeon interviewing a woman who would like her left breast removed. The viewer sees everything from the perspective of the doctor, voiced by Cronenberg.
Although this is more like dipping his pinky toe back into the body horror waters, here’s hoping that he goes back to horror soon and it’s not the found footage variety like this short.
Here’s the short in its entirety:
Note: This video will no longer be here after the exhibition ends on September 14th.
From 22 June through 14 September 2014, IFFR’s friends at EYE Film Institute in Amsterdam present a major exhibition focusing on director David Cronenberg, who acquired cult status with his idiosyncratic films about the relationship between body, mind, technology and mass media. In 1990, IFFR dedicated a retrospective to this Canadian filmmaker.
David Cronenberg – The Exhibition explores Cronenberg’s world through the main themes of his films: the physical and psychological transformation of his protagonists.
His short The Nest was commissioned for the exhibition and is now available online for the first time. Through the point of view of a doctor (voiced by Cronenberg himself), a woman (Evelyne Brochu) who has made the request for a very unorthodox breast operation is interviewed. Could the rough-looking operating room actually be Cronenberg’s garage?
