The most disgusting 8 minutes of art you'll ever unsee.
Goo, orifice fixation, medical procedures, non-human/inanimate entities considered as bodies. Scabaction records the welding of a sculpture, some antics with Vaseline, and the removal of an ingrown hair.
Practical Effects
Real Vaseline, real welding, really happening to real bodies.
Direction
Barney's debut: already obsessed with petroleum jelly and flesh.
Director
Matthew Barney
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This kicked off Barney's Cremaster cycle obsession: petroleum jelly as primal creative substance and bodily constraint.
Made while Barney was still at Yale—his thesis was essentially 'what if I filmed myself doing weird things to my body?'
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