The Girl with X-Ray Eyes

His eyes closed, director Phillip Warnell experiences how Natasha Demkina, an attractive young medical student from Moscow, scans him with her unblinking eyes from head to toe, from front and back. The camera circles around them and zooms in. The walls of the gymnasium where this scene is taking place enclose her. It's as if the camera wants to enter Demkina's perception, to see what she sees.

Natasha Demkina has X-ray eyes. She can see every cell inside Warnell's body, right through his clothes. After what seems like an endless visual examination, she points out what is going on inside the bag of organs the director is to her. But in their magical universe, looking, talking and communicating have been taken apart. We cannot hear what she says, as all attention is focused on the surges that seem to pervade the film during the diagnostic evaluation. It's only in a long close-up at the end of the film that subtitles tell us how detailed and medically substantiated her observations are. Something is wrong with the roots of one of Warnell's molars, a vertebra, an artery and much more. It's a miracle the man is still standing.