A globally scaled follow-up to
April 2001's highly rated Naked States: America Undercover, this
documentary follows the celebrated and controversial artist Spencer
Tunick on his latest, most ambitious project: a one-year trek to
all seven continents to take photographs of naked people, individually
and in groups, against various man-made and natural backdrops. Over
the course of one year, all seven continents (including Antarctica
- BRRRRR!) and nine countries (Canada, France, Great Britain, Ireland,
Russia, Australia, Japan, South Africa and Brazil), Tunick and his
crew map out an ambitious agenda that says as much about the cultures
he encounters as it does about the subjects and landmarks he photographs.
The film questions what nakedness means to people in different countries
and climates, both geographic and political, and underscores just
how volatile the debate about nudity as a legitimate art form can
be. |