Lars von Trier Essays
Understanding Depression Through Art Film: Von Trier's 'Melancholia' College
Melancholia
A commonly reported symptom of clinical depression is a warped sense of time. Everything can feel like its moving in super slow motion. In fact, depression warps everything around it like a star warps space-time. Not only your sense of duration...
Recontextualizing Inferno: The Hell of "The House That Jack Built" College
The House That Jack Built
The House That Jack Built (2018) is the latest thriller piece by Danish director Lars Von Trier, notorious for his never-ending greed for controversy and shocked audience. Eric Kohn describes the film as “often-horrifying, sadistic dive into a...