The Thinking Machine #95

In their series The Thinking Machine, critics Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin create a new video essay for Filmkrant every month.

In 1945 Malcolm de Chazal published his aphoristic classic Plastic-Sense – where sense refers not to meaning but to the five senses, and plastic refers to the malleable, transformative qualities of art. He wrote: “Everything on earth is sensuously connected to everything else”. Leaving behind the well-worn themes of sex and transgression, let us explore the three-part Immoral Women (Les heroïnes du mal, 1979) by Walerian Borowczyk (or ‘Boro’) using the paths of plastic-sense.