Erika Balsom

Cemetery of splendour: David Cronenberg on The Shrouds

No filmmaker has been as preoccupied as Cronenberg by flesh and the many ways it can be transformed. In his latest film, the 82-year-old looks at the last transformation flesh undergoes, through the story of a tech entrepreneur who invents a system for observing the dead in their coffins. Here, he talks about death, film and conspiracy in the digital age.