Dorian a cinematic perfume (2009)

Dorian a cinematic perfume is based on Oscar Wildes 19th century novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and its themes of decadence narcissism and the meaning of art I have interpreted the story and its queer undertones by casting Dorian as a young woman discovered by a fashion photographer then catapulted into the world of empty celebrity She falls under the tutelage of a famous drag queen and becomes a nightclub luminary constantly followed by the paparazzi These media images become the infamous portrait grotesquely mutating as she grows more beautiful and famous culminating in her own narcissistic destruction