About NUDES

NUDES The Anthology is a short film series inspired by influential depictions of the naked body throughout literature and art. Co-created by director Clemy Clarke and writer/producer C.C. Kellogg, these shorts interrogate the way we encounter nudity and exposure, especially in web-based and digital media, while reinterpreting significant cultural touchstones.

Each “chapter” in the series takes a short story, painting, or sculpture created by a canonical male artist as its guiding inspiration: works from Botticelli, Chekhov, Courbet, Michelangelo, Tanizaki, and Zweig all serve as starting points. While some installments are deconstructed retellings, others are fanciful deviations. Each of the shorts functions independently, but they are also intended to appear in dialogue with one another.

NUDES is a collective meditation on bodily agency, muse-artist relationships, and shared cultural inheritance.

Website cover image by Jordan Tiberio. Website design by Suze Myers.