Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: In the second chapter of his personal trilogy on human paradise, Paradies: Glaube (2012), Austrian director Ulrich Seidl changes the object of faith from a symbol of pure transcendence to authentic immanence. Lost among the accumulations of despair, the sacred thing is attacked by the rest; still, it bears a profound meaning of which it becomes an expression. But if for Seidl man is an infinite abyss, then of what does the object become a symbol: of the inevitable destruction of man? Is this perhaps the transcendent, inconceivable, obscurely intuited meaning? And if the object does not survive, what meaning comes from its destruction?
Author: Altobelli, Vincenzo
Institution: Roma Tre University
Language: English
Topic: Cinema History and Criticism
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W6903785554
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