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Director

David Cronenberg

Canada · Toronto · b. March 15, 1943
Profile

The anatomist of the body's betrayal. His cinema treats flesh as a text to be read, mutated, violated — a landscape where technology, desire, and decay intersect. He made horror philosophical and the grotesque intimate.

Thematic context drawn from Senses of Cinema. Read the full critical essay →
In Their Own Words

Ingmar Bergman's *The Seventh Seal* (1957) and *Persona* (1966) struck me powerfully.

On From the Drain () 14 mins, color, 16mm (Also screenplay, cinematography, editor  ·  Cronenberg on Cronenberg by Chris Rodley (Revised Edition)
Filmography (73)
Consumed 2014
Maps To the Stars 2014
The Nest (Short 2013
Cosmopolis 2012
A Dangerous Method 2011
To Each His Own Cinema (Segment: “At the Suicide of the Last Jew in the World in the Last Cinema in the World” 2007
Eastern Promises 2007
A History of Violence 2005
Camera, 2002
Spider 2002
Dead by Monday 2000
The Films of David Cronenberg 2000
Resurrection 1999
eXistenZ 1999
Last Night 1998
Grace Of God 1997
Extreme Measures 1996
The Stupids 1996
Crash 1996
Moonshine Highway 1996
To Die For 1995
Blood and Donuts 1995
Trial by Jury 1994
Boozecan 1994
Henry and Verlin 1994
M. Butterfly 1993
Naked Making Lunch 1992
Blue 1992
Naked Lunch 1991
Maniac Mansion: Idella’s Breakdown 1991
Scales of Justice: Regina Versus Horvath 1990
Bistro (Commercial for Cadbury Caramilk 1990
Scales of Justice: Regina Versus Logan 1990
Surveillance (Commercial for Cadbury Caramilk 1990
Transformation #1 (Commercial for Nike 1990
Transformation #2 (Commercial for Nike 1990
Transformation #3 (Commercial for Nike 1990
Transformation #4 (Commercial for Nike 1990
Transformation #5 (Commercial for Nike 1990
Nightbreed 1989
Timers (Commercial for Ontario Hydro 1989
Cleaners (Commercial for Ontario Hydro 1989
Laundry (Commercial for Ontario Hydro 1989
Hot Showers (Commercial for Ontario Hydro 1989
Dead Ringers 1988
Friday the 13th: Episode 12 – Faith Healer 1987
The Fly 1986
Into the Night 1985
The Dead Zone 1983
Videodrome 1982
Scanners 1980
Fast Company 1979
The Brood 1979
The Italian Machine 1976
Rabid 1976
Peep Show: The Victim 1975
Shivers (also known as They Came from Within , The Parasite Murders , Frissons , Orgy of the Blood Parasites ) 1975
Peep Show: The Lie Chair 1975
Don Valley 1972
Winter Garden 1972
Scarborough Bluffs 1972
Fort York 1972
In the Dirt 1972
Lakeshore 1972
Programme X: Secret Weapons 1972
Tourettes 1971
Letter from Michelangelo 1971
Jim Ritchie Sculptor 1971
Crimes of the Future 1970
Stereo 1969
From the Drain 1967
Black Zero 1967
Transfer 1966