Cronenberg’s icy first featurettes show a young director already sure of his fecund thematic territory, investigating the convergence of fringe medicine and outlaw sexuality in Stereo (1969), wherein subjects at a sex-research institute undergo brain surgery to acquire telepathic powers, and Crimes Of The Future (1970), which arranges a bizarre interface of dermatology and paedophilia.

We’re happy to have been given permission to screen Cronenberg’s first two major efforts, and on the same night. Both films contain early examples of the themes now common in his work.

The exploration of new states of consciousness, sexual experimentation, telepathy and polymorphous sexual relationships are all present.