Crash | 1996 | Dir. David Cronenberg

SAMANTHA MATHIS as MIRANDA PRESLEY and RIVER PHOENIX as JAMES WRIGHT in The Thing Called Love (1993)

My Own Private Idaho (1991) dir. Gus Van Sant River Phoenix as Mike Waters

I'm not queer. I'm disembodied.

QUEER (2024) dir. Luca Guadagnino

Outer Banks (S1-S2)

"...the interaction between an anonymous individual and his car, the transits of his body across the polished cellulose panels and vinyl seating, his face silhouetted against the instrument dials.

"Caring for him, I wanted to stroke his scarred thighs and abdomen, offering him the automobile injuries carried by my own body in place of those imaginary wounds he wished upon the actress." -J.G. Ballard, Crash

JAMES SPADER as James Ballard CRASH (1996), dir. David Cronenberg

RIVER PHOENIX as JAMES WRIGHT and SAMANTHA MATHIS as MIRANDA PRESLEY in The Thing Called Love (1993)

River Phoenix photographed on the set of “My Own Private Idaho” by Abigayle Tarsches, 1991.

RIVER PHOENIX AS DANNY PAGE RUNNING ON EMPTY, 1988