disease of finitude
David Cronenberg inspired microfiction
DISEASE OF FINITUDE is a small, curated zine of experimental, weird micro fiction inspired by the films and theories of auteur David Cronenberg. The title is born of Cronenberg’s quote regarding the inspiration for his film The Fly, where he proposes: “we’ve all got the disease [...] the disease of being finite”.
His cinematic symbolic language is a rebellion against this disease of finitude: ipseity (selfhood) is problematized, challenged, and subverted by eidos (form) throughout his filmography. Nearly six decades of art have made him the pioneer and prophet of interstices of the body and its abjection, ecstasy, and Otherness. DISEASE OF FINITUDE is a collection of pieces inspired and inseminated by the strange effluvia of his work: birthing numerous disorienting, erotic, transgressive, and ferociously alive miniature missives of art.
