ECAM Doc 'Our Raised Skin' Explores Male Body Shame — SkimNews
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- 'Our Raised Skin' is in advanced development as one of five projects selected for ECAM's La Incubadora ninth edition, directed by Paolo Natale.
- Paolo Natale says the film asks at what point in childhood boys become 'patriarchal men,' drawing from a compulsive eating disorder shared by him, his father and his grandfather — though the project is not autobiographical.
- Manuela Gutiérrez Arrieta, Juan Carlos Ballesteros, Nabil Ejey and Mubox Studio are producing, with development funding from the Region of Murcia and La 7, Murcia's regional television channel.
- Filming is planned for at least partly in summer 2027, with Natale and Gutiérrez Arrieta seeking additional development funding across Spain and Italy (where Natale is from).
- Natale calls fat 'political' and 'viscous,' criticizing 'visual capitalism' and championing low-resolution, blurred, out-of-focus images over 'canonically beautiful' high-resolution film.
- Natale distinguishes binge-eating disorders from bigorexia, arguing that male emotional eating remains shrouded in shame and silence while masculinity demands a body built for power.
Why it matters: Natale is using the ECAM slot to mount a formally radical hybrid doc on a taboo subject — male emotional eating and softness — pairing body politics with an aesthetic polemic against HD image fetishism at a moment when cinema's visual norms remain largely unchallenged.
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