Spencer Tunick

Art, publicity, and "the politics of nudity" go under the cultural microscope in this award-winning documentary. Photographer Spencer Tunick specializes in nudes--large groups of them, usually in publ...( read more  read more... )ic places. Naked States follows Tunick from one of his many arrests in New York through a national tour in a quest to get a nude photo in each state and a gallery showing at the end of it. Naked States combines footage of Tunick (at times uninhibitedly whiny) at work with interviews with his subjects and the occasional wry comment by his girlfriend. Tunick's images are undeniably compelling, as are many of his subjects' reasons for stripping off and posing. Most interesting are the sequences involving a genial Burning Man crowd and some surprisingly uncooperative nudists. The film contains, obviously, quite a bit of full-frontal nudity, but none of it is eroticized--an interesting phenomenon in itself. Well worth watching. --Ali Davis

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R, 80 min.

Directed by: Arlene Donnelly, Spencer Tunick

Release Date: January 1, 2000

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DVD Release Date: July 30, 2002

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  • September 4, 2009
    Some pretentious "artist" risks arrest while taking naked (often-times group) pictures in public in all 50 states. And he has some shyster lawyer prattle on about how all our liberties are at risk if this "artist" is prosecuted for violating city laws and ordinances. I aint no pr...( read more)ude, but this is just dumb - guy is so full of himself.
  • March 24, 2008
    This movie had potential, but fell through the cracks. To bad.
  • November 17, 2007
    A photographer's journey to snap naked posts across the 50 states in the USA.
  • August 21, 2007
    Spencer Tunick is a complete one-off photographer. Risking arrest and ridicule in his early days, he is now a household name for his famous mass nude installations out in public urban places. This movie has changed the way many people look at themselves and the world around them.
  • April 6, 2007
    Although I never saw the Delaware picture.
  • June 10, 2006
    Spencer Tunick's photography is so incredible that you actually forget that the people are naked.

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