Eigteenth of Oktember The night falls The king comes The hunt starts Wolfgang Voigt, Rausch (2018) GAS is Wolfgang Voigt, co-founder of the legendary electronic music label Kompakt from Cologne, and Rausch (2018) is his masterpiece. On the cover art we see and on the two discs we hear the mythical German forests, birthplace of …
Melancholia is a very special film for me, coming from my favorite director in cinema, the Danish Lars von Trier. The story begins with the opera “Tristan und Isolde“, by the legendary composer Richard Wagner. While we listen to it we see the space trajectory of a mysterious and unknown planet that is getting closer …
Lars von Trier’s Dogville (2003) offers us an alternative interpretation to the mystery of the incarnation than what Christianity has traditionally come to understand in Christ’s humanization. Instead of the possibility of salvation, Dogville suggests Christ’s incarnation as the possibility of a universal condemnation. The story of God-becoming-man remains more or less the same; yet the conclusion reached is …
A Commentary on Lars von Trier’s The House That Jack Built (2019) Whose house? Which Jack? From the beginning it was a matter of material. After all, all creation, production, and construction must begin with matter. The material Jack uses as the instrument for his first in a series of murders was a car jack. …
10. Mommy (2014 / directed by Xavier Dolan)In a fictitious Canada, a new law allows parents to lock their problematic children inside a special center. But Diane “Die” Despres (Anne Dorval), a widowed mother, decides to educate her hyperactive and violent teenage son Steve (Antoine Olivier Pilon) herself. Steve has insanely violent episodes and suffers …
