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Spencer Tunick gathers dozen, hundreds, sometimes thousands of people, has them strip naked, and then photographs them. The resulting images work on macro and micro levels: one might view the nudes as a sea of color in the landscape, or look for the specific angles and details of an individual person. The images are, by turns, beautiful, funny, unsettling, and absurd. The world's only mass nude photographer, Tunick has captured the imagination of people across the world, and wherever he goes he finds hundreds of volunteers ready to model for his unique work.In NAKED WORLD, the follow-up documentary to NAKED STATES, documentarian Arlene Donnelly follow Tunick as he sets off to photograph nudes--in numbers ranging from one to 4,500--on all seven continents. Tunick travels to Paris, St. Petersburg, Melbourne, Tokyo, Cape Town, and even Antarctica in his fascinating artistic adventure. Along the way, Donnelly investigates the psychological, political, and cultural forces that invariably revolve around the public nude. She shows the shame and elation experienced by the subjects, the challenges of staging such large-scale "installations," and also the widely varied responses to Tunick's work in different countries (Parisians show a surprising distrust of the endeavor, while in St. Petersburg the Russians are eager to display their liberal sentiments). NAKED WORLD reveals a compelling and provocative artist at work on his most ambitious project.