Grave misgivings • Philippa Hawker

Grave misgivings • Philippa Hawker

In 2021, David Cronenberg released the briefest of short works, made with his daughter Cressida. The Death of David Cronenberg featured the director contemplating a realistic prosthetic corpse laid out in a bed, a body that just happens to be his double. He then climbs into bed alongside his dead self, embracing it with tenderness, a man seemingly in touch with the prospect of his own mortality. The prosthetic corpse was originally made by the s…