collisionwork: (Tulse Luper)
2007-05-31 10:14 am

An Ending

I previously posted David Cronenberg's amazing short film/video Camera, which was made for the Montreal International Film Festival.

Cronenberg has made another short film for a film festival - this time as part of the Cannes 60th Anniversary compilation Chacun Son Cinema for which many great directors from around the world made films of approximately 3 minutes or so.

Again, appropriately, Cronenberg takes as his subject cinema itself, and again, death. He himself plays the silent onscreen character.

Here's the film, At the Suicide of the Last Jew in the World in the Last Cinema in the World:



collisionwork: (Tulse Luper)
2007-05-08 01:00 am

Children, The Camera, and Death

Enjoying my new ability to watch videos here, a link to a link to a link jogged something in my mind, which, combined with Tim Lucas' obit for director Curtis Harrington, reminded me to look for David Cronenberg's great short film Camera on YouTube and share it with those who haven't caught it yet: