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The eroticism of accidents was brought to mass-market audiences in David Cronenberg's Crash. Equally, in City of the Broken Dolls, award-winning filmmaker and photographer Romain Slocombe subjects the viewer to simultaneously erotic and shocking images - in this case, beautiful young Japanese girls in plastercasts and bandages, victims of unknown traumas. These are the “broken dolls” of Romain Slocombe’s Tokyo, a city seething with undercurrents of violent fantasy, fetishism and bondage.
City of the Broken Dolls is a provocative photographic document of the girls whose bodies bear mute witness to Tokyo’s futuristic, erotic interface of sex and technology.
Born in Paris, France, Romain Slocombe’s previous publications include Prisoner of the Red Army which was immediately banned on publication in 1978 and has since become an underground s/m cult classic and L’Art Medical (1983). He has exhibited in New York, Tokyo, London, Paris and Berlin, and has taken part in numerous collaborative projects with avant-garde musicians and artists, including a documentary about US photographer/ filmmaker Richard Kern. His latest short film Weekend in Tokyo (1999) has, to date, received 5 awards from various European short film festivals including ‘Best Film’ at Mons and ‘Best Foreign Film’ at the British Short Film Festival, London. Tokyo Sex Underground, his next photographic collection, will be published by Creation Books in Spring 2001. Further details will appear on the website in due course.
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