Cronenberg put the image called “Inner Beauty” for sale on the “Superrare” platform about three weeks ago, with a “reserve price” of ten Ethereum (about $30,000 according to the exchange rate of this cryptocurrency).
Once this amount is reached, the auction will continue for 24 hours.
“My doctor told me that he should keep the kidney stones for analysis,” Cronenberg said via the trading site, but the 79-year-old director refuses, because he finds these stones “too beautiful to disintegrate.”
Cronenberg decided to photograph 18 stones removed from his body and convert these images into NFT products. While only the buyer of the NFT product has the work, the product is still available to everyone online.
Last year, the director sold (for 25 ethereum) a short film in which he appeared alongside a corpse that looked exactly like him.
The idea for “Inner Beauty” came from his movie “Dead Rangers” (1988), which talks about two twin gynecologists who share everything.
The release of the image of “Inner Beauty” also bears a reference to his new film “Chimes of the Future”, which is nominated for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, in which Viggo Mortensen plays one of the roles. The director announced that Mortensen will undergo “a direct operation on his body” in the film.
Hollywood’s NFT earnings became a source of funding for independent films.
Cronenberg did not say whether a physical copy of Inner Beauty would accompany the NFT image, as these products often remain in digital format only.