Early film vampires — Nosferatu, Dracula — worked to establish vampiric Otherness; every measured step,
unblinking close - up, and beat of preternatural calm built a glossary.
Penis (2006), an anatomically correct, crisply drawn
close - up of the body part, offers an upending of Gustave Courbet's Origin of the World (1866), an
unblinking look at the male phallus that is both real and theatrical, perversely clinical but with an undertone of heat, appealing to the voyeur — and exhibitionist — in all of us.