As the human species adapts to a synthetic environment, the body undergoes new transformations and mutations. With his partner Caprice, Saul Tenser, a famous artist and performer, publicly displays the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. Timlin, an investigator for the National Organ Registry, obsessively follows their movements.
David Cronenberg was born in 1943 in Toronto. While at university, he became interested in film and produced two shorts, Transfer and From the Drain. His first films were Stereo and Crimes of the Future, both shot in the late '60's. In 1975, Cronenberg shot his first commercial feature, Shivers. He directed The Brood in 1979, followed by Scanners. Videodrome (1983) was hailed by Andy Warhol as "the Clockwork Orange of the 80s". In 1996, he won the Prix Spécial du Jury at Cannes with Crash. Then he presented two films in Festival de Cannes' official Competition: Spider (2002) and A History of Violence (2005). He is a pioneer of the genre called body horror, which explores the terror of man in the face of the mutation of the body, the infections and contamination of the flesh.
