Movies: Orlan

Conceived as an electronic road movie, this documentary investigates cutting edge technologies and their influence on our culture as we approach the 21st century. It takes off from the idea that mankind's effort to tap the power of Nature has been so...

A documentary edited from ORLAN's seventh surgery in the The Reincarnation of Sainte-ORLAN series which aired live, vis satellite from New York in 1993....

Reel 15 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series....

A documentary covering the rebirth of St.Orlan from 1991 through most of the decade....

Venice will always be the city of romantic conquests....

A little girl finds a minitel by chance, and responds to "old dogs looking for puppies" with a nickname "little jesus loves animals."...

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Post modern and baroque as hell... good and bad taste without synthesis... semblance and false pretense... nods to the history of art... sentimental and cultural clichés: serious, funny, grotesque......

The philosophical notion of "self," which first appeared more than four hundred years ago in John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding, has been somewhat challenged in recent years by a series of scientific discoveries about the role of bacte...

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Performance artist ORLAN undergoes one in a series of surgeries that would give her “the chin of Sandro Botticelli’s Venus in The Birth of Venus, the nose of Francois Pascal Simon Gerard’s Psyche in Le premier baisser de l’amour a Psyche, the eyes of...