The woman who built Cronenberg's nightmares finally gets her close-up.
The invisible art of production designer Carol Spier. The relationship between director and production designer is a special one. FRAME BY FRAME is a documentary that goes behind the scenes of David Cronenberg's sci-fi film, eXistenZ, for a rare and fascinating look at the art of production designer, Carol Spier.
Production
Spier's fleshy, organic tech designs that define Cronenberg's body horror.
Direction
Jeans lets Spier's work speak while capturing her process.
Director
Katherine A. Jeans
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Spier designed nearly every Cronenberg film from The Brood (1979) through Maps to the Stars (2014), including the infamous exploding head in Scanners.
The documentary reveals Spier's background in sculpture, explaining why eXistenZ's game pods feel like disturbingly intimate art installations rather than standard sci-fi props.
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