Movies: David Cronenberg

John Hofsess’s The Palace of Pleasure emerged from the psychedelic haze of 1960s postmodern art. It was a blistering work that combined arresting abstract imagery with the wounded expressions of a young couple, edited into a collage of mass culture i...

The debut feature from Canada's most celebrated filmmaker, David Cronenberg, Shivers provided the young director with a crash course in feature filmmaking and established many of the unsettling themes explored in his later work. In the film, medical ...

A short documentary produced for Canadian public television....

An experimental investigation of Toronto street life and youth culture....

A recording of the eponymous ballet choreographed by Olga Roriz, produced for Canadian public television....

A young woman discovers she has the power to bring dead goldfish back to life. But what else is she capable of bringing back?...

A short documentary produced for Canadian public television....

"L'inquiétante absence" is a documentary that examines the current state of genre films in Québec. In an attempt to answer their questions, the filmmakers conducted several interviews with leading figures of Québec's genre cinema from various backgro...

When a troubled teen aged girl goes missing, an ex-detective is forced to take on the case which he slowly realizes is a lot stranger than it originally seemed....

Where futures are known and happiness is guaranteed by G.O.D., a mother is given a choice - her child or her perfect future....

Director David Cronenberg discusses his transition from the experimental filmmaking of 'Stero' and 'Crimes of the Future' to working within the commercial Canadian film industry....

“I Have to Make the Word Be Flesh” is an insightful and candid interview with the man himself about his films and his motivations. Cronenberg is cheerfully frank about his often grotesque images and controversial subject matter, and clearly relishes ...

A short documentary produced for Canadian public television....

Michael Ironside discusses his role as Darryl Revok in the 1981 sci-fi/horror cult classic "Scanners."...

ACTS OF VIOLENCE is a behind the scenes documentary, structured in a scene by scene breakdown of all the incidents of violence in David Cronenberg's film, A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE. Directed by Cronenberg's wife, Carolyn Zeifman, who has been married to ...

Touching on love, sex, money, and art, Cassandra Cronenberg directs this formally daring inventory of human transactions, which tracks a young woman’s journey through an intoxicating sleepless night....

A short documentary produced for Canadian public television....

The short drama is about a group of children in the wing of a hospital plotting a covert operation in the middle of the night. Are they up to no good or are they attempting something incredible?...

A short documentary produced for Canadian public television....

'Karim' tells the tale of a troubled boy who finds himself trapped in a world where fear, violence and abuse surround him, preying on his every thought and action. The film follows Karim on a day that will forever change his life, culminating in a sa...