French Extremity : In My Skin

Electric Blue presents: In My Skin (2002), written, directed by and starring French filmmaker Marina De Van. This independent body horror, or 'cine du corpse' acts as a precursor to the New French Extremity movement of the early 21st Century, hallmarked by avant-garde directors such as Claire Denis, Catherine Breillat, Lars von Trier and Julia Ducorneau. De Van's film perfectly sets the tone for this movement around cinematic bodily violence, sexual transgression and the brutality of gender, with her intimate narrartive of mutilation and self-cannibalism. De Van presents a film about tactility- exploring the relationship to the materiality of our own corpus and by extension, the auto-cannabilsim of cinema itself.

In My Skin will be preceded by a selection of blood-curdling body horror shorts, curated especially by Electric Blue in conversation with De Van's voyeur-defying feature, with a brief introduction by our resident programmers.

Host or Publisher Electric Blue Cinema