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ARTX-028 · acquired 2019 · running time 84m
Rose Glass · 2019

Saint Maud

There's something inside me. I know it.

Provisional dossier. Metrics derived from the systematic pipeline (method v1.1-metric-fix); curatorial reading pending. The shape below is what the open record has produced so far — read it as a draft, not a verdict.

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The Reading

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Consensus
Extreme78

Resolved — wide, durable agreement across critic and audience record.

Friction
Present41

Simmering — disagreement exists but has not hardened.

Obsession
Elevated62

Persistent — returning regularly to cultural attention.

Residual Haunting
Extreme85

Installed — the work recurs without invitation; it has moved in.

Symbolic Density
Elevated75

Layered — sustained interpretive activity; the film is being decoded.

Cult Formation
Elevated52

Formed — a distinct custodial community exists and is active.

Formal Risk
Elevated73

Risky — sustained formal experimentation that tests viewer tolerance.

Emotional Voltage
Extreme89

Extreme — the work moves bodies; crying, panic, awe, nausea in the record.

Accessibility
Elevated64

Open — most viewers can enter without special context.

Reach
Elevated70

Permeating — imagery and language used by people who have not seen the work.

Progeny
Subdued23

Terminal — no documented lineage; no works cite it as formative.

Cultural Arc
Elevated55

Overturned — the work's cultural position is substantially different from its initial reception.

Transgression
Elevated69

Provocative — content was considered transgressive; controversy around what it showed or said.

Cultural Afterlife

2019 → 2026
2019
2024
2019 · release
Saint Maud released.
release / rediscovery / criterion
rejection / meme / wound
academic adoption

Discourse Factions

analytical
100%

Saint Maud (2019) directed by Rose Glass. Curated baseline artifact for metric calibration and systematic scoring initialization.

Recurring Symbols

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  • glasssurfaced
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  • artifactsurfaced
  • metricsurfaced
  • calibrationsurfaced

Adjacent Pressure