To explain what ‘haptic cinema’ is in the most basic of terms it is cinema that suggests a tactile experience to the viewer. Videodrome explores ideas like what if what we watch isn’t good for us? How does what we watch change or reality? Furthermore, if the moving image has this deep effect David Cronenberg is communicating to us that it does, it must be haptic by nature, shouldn’t it? Culture has always expressed its self through its media, but ever since the invention of the television the imagery of our media is becoming ever more personalised, we are becoming what we watch. This quote I have opened on, spoken by the ‘media prophet ‘in the film Brian Oblivion, is a statement on how television (can also be applied to film, and now computers and smart phones) has become a kind of extension of our nervous system in the modern world. Videodrome is not only a film that capture’s how haptic cinema operates in practice, but plot wise it is also a thesis statement for the extent that the haptic nature of film effects it’s viewer. Therefore, television is reality, and reality is less than television.” Therefore, whatever appears on the television screen emerges as raw experience for those who watch it. Therefore, the television screen is part of the physical structure of the brain. “The television screen is the retina of the mind’s eye. Will be one that consumes as both into ravenous subhuman parasites. The sensation of his severe malnourished bones against my womanly flesh I want to make the pain inside him burn magnificently.Īnd I will hear him moan in pathetic ecstasyįrom underneath the overwhelming voluptuousness of my body.
I want to be the pox mark that remains long after the sickness fades, I want to be the sting on his razor which lingers all day, I want to exterminate any hope for his future happiness. I want to break those withering bones apart. The exquisite melancholy that can only form when past trauma is left to fester. Such a splendid damage hidden inside him,īuried in that voice is a secret and long seated pain, There’s a pool of blood behind those eyes.
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