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David Cronenberg poses outside the festival's palace after he received a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement award during a ceremony on September 6, 2018 at the 75th Venice Film Festival at Venice Lido. (AFP)
  • The Canadian has put up a picture of his newly removed kidney stones -- which he calls "Inner Beauty" -- up for sale for $30,000 as an NFT.
  • The auction comes as Cronenberg prepares to premiere his new movie, "Crimes of the Future", at the Cannes film festival next month.

Film director David Cronenberg made his name grossing out audiences with graphic “body horror” movies like “Crash” and the “The Fly”. Now he wants the world to marvel at the beauty of his insides.

The Canadian has put up a picture of his newly removed kidney stones — which he calls “Inner Beauty” — up for sale for $30,000 as an NFT.

Cronenberg’s doctor wanted to analyze the stones but the director insisted “they’re too beautiful to be destroyed”, adding that he felt a strange “closeness” to them.

“After all, it comes from the inside of my body.”

The auction comes as Cronenberg prepares to premiere his new movie, “Crimes of the Future”, at the Cannes film festival next month. It’s a jaunty tale of an artist who carries out surgery on himself starring Viggo Mortensen, an actor who once superglued a broken tooth back on so he could finish a scene.