NOTICE :
Well, I guess this instant coprophilia classic is not for everyone’s tastes. It should be noted though that Gord Wilding – in spite of the very graphic content of the short – aimed for something much more complex than pure shock value.

PLOT SUMMARY :
A man, obsessed with his vision of beauty is determined to recreate his ideal in the real world. One thing... his obsession concerns fecal sculpture.

TRIVIA :
In 1999 — Gord Wilding’s Rapture, about a pedophile who sculpts a young boy in a Madonna pose out of his own excrement, becomes the first WFG film to play at Cannes. Most people are shocked; some are appalled; a few are even shocked and appalled.

COMMENT :
Gordon Wilding appears to have been born without the gene for self-censorship. You just have to walk through the cluttered studio belonging to this Winnipeg production designer and visual artist to get a sense of his demented inner life...."I'm not good at knowing what's appropriate," says Wilding, 39, a sunny fellow who appears to be an unlikely candidate to harbour eccentric thoughts. "I rely on my wife to tell me when I've crossed the line."...Wilding went to high school in Shilo, where his father was stationed in the military. He completed most of a fine arts degree at the University of Manitoba. In the mid-'90s he worked for the Winnipeg Film Group, made his own short film, Rapture (which was screened at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1999), and eventually worked his way up the local production ladder. "He's a total dynamo," says his friend George Godwin, a local film editor. "He's got so much creativity and energy he makes me feel inadequate."
- source : http://www.artsnews.ca/Archives/2004Q2/ ... grown.html