David Cronenberg Exhibition at the Rome Film Festival
Our colleagues at Intellect share this recent report from the Rome Film Festival
Mark Browning, author of David Cronenberg: Author or Filmmaker?, contributed to one of the text commentaries for a special exhibition, forming part of the 2008 Rome Film Festival. Chromosomes, featured fifty specially-enhanced close-ups, all with accompanying commentary, from a range of Cronenberg’s work, spanning over 30 years. It followed previous exhibitions on the work of Peter Greenaway, Michael Nyman and Atom Egoyan, all initiated by Volumina, a cultural body concerned with bringing Art and Film together in new and surprising ways. In 2005, they organized an exhibition to accompany Cronenberg’s lushly-illustrated, limited edition book, Red Cars, featuring a screenplay about the Ferrari dynasty and the battle for the 1961 Formula One championship. Browning’s commentary complemented a still from Spider, one of Cronenberg’s more underrated works. Links between Cronenberg and literature, the focus of Browning’s book, are particularly pertinent, not just in the light of Red Cars but Cronenberg’s keenly-awaited debut as a novelist, due for publication next year, provisionally entitled Consumed. The exhibition was at the Palazzo della Esposizioni in Rome.