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  • 1973
  • Not Rated
  • Nightmare Video
  • 1 h 5 m
  • 1973
  • Not Rated
  • Nightmare Video
  • 1 h 5 m
Stereo (Tile 3B of a CAEE Educational Mosaic)

Summary Sometime in the future, the Canadian Academy for Erotic Inquiry is investigating the theories of parapsychologist Luther Stringfellow. Seven young adults volunteer to submit to a form of brain surgery that removes their power of speech but increases their power for telepathic communication. An unseen group of students observes the result...

Directed By: David Cronenberg

Written By: David Cronenberg

  • 1973
  • Not Rated
  • Nightmare Video
  • 1 h 5 m
  • 1973
  • Not Rated
  • Nightmare Video
  • 1 h 5 m

Stereo (Tile 3B of a CAEE Educational Mosaic)

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Summary Sometime in the future, the Canadian Academy for Erotic Inquiry is investigating the theories of parapsychologist Luther Stringfellow. Seven young adults volunteer to submit to a form of brain surgery that removes their power of speech but increases their power for telepathic communication. An unseen group of students observes the result...

Directed By: David Cronenberg

Written By: David Cronenberg

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The first film by director David Cronenberg, the black and white, hour-long feature Stereo is more self-consciously avant-garde, and less visceral, than his later work. Nevertheless, many of the usual Cronenberg concerns are present: a futuristic setting, bizarre scientific experimentation, and an obsessive exploration of perverse forms of sexuality.
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Even the director’s most rabid fans will find Cronenberg’s debut to be a tough sit.
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Undone by a generally detached air, and by lengthy, choking narration (a factor of shooting without sync sound due to the noise of the camera), Stereo (and arguably his next feature too) is most valuable today as a document of Cronenberg the student, the filmmaker-in-gestation, searching for, but not yet finding that perfect balance between kink, thought experiment and actual entertainment.
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Basically a student effort (Cronenberg was 26), pic tests the viewer’s patience and endurance even with its hour’s running time due to its emphatically dry, scientific narration and deliberate emotional distancing.
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Stereo mainly proves that you can't successfully spoof psychology merely by making it dull.
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Production Company Emergent Films Ltd.
Release Date Nov 30, 1973
Duration 1 h 5 m
Rating Not Rated
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