{"id":963,"date":"2011-12-24T10:55:34","date_gmt":"2011-12-24T09:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/waldach.com\/?post_type=portfolio&p=963\/"},"modified":"2017-07-22T11:51:41","modified_gmt":"2017-07-22T09:51:41","slug":"antichrist-theme","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"http:\/\/waldach.com\/en\/portfolio\/antichrist-theme\/","title":{"rendered":"Antichrist Theme"},"content":{"rendered":"
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_custom_heading text=”Antichrist, 2010″ font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23a8193f” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]The corner triptych cites two main sources: Friedrich Nietzsche\u2019s original text \u201cAntichrist\u201d (1889) and the eponymous film by Lars von Trier from 2009.
\nIn Trier\u2019s film, a nameless married couple retreats to the forest following the death of their child, to a hut named \u201cEden.\u201d This is but one of several obvious references to a religious system. It is here where the husband treats his wife with psychotherapy to confront her with her greatest fear (He: Where are you afraid? What would be the worst place? She: The woods)
\nWas Lars von Trier intentionally referring to Nietzsche\u2019s text with his own film title \u201cAntichrist\u201d? It is interesting to note his slight artistic intervention in the printed title of the film: to replace the final \u201ct\u201d in \u201cAntichrist\u201d with the Venus symbol, the sign for the female sex.
\nWho is the \u201cAntichrist\u201d for Nietzsche? Perhaps Jesus, or the author himself? Or a new generation of human being that liberated from the moral values of the Christian-occidental tradition. For Trier, it seems to be the woman in his film \u2013 or the female principle in general. However the contemplations undertaken by the female protagonist bring her primarily to doubt herself, since the order of the external world does not correspond to that of her inner world.
\nThe woman is frightened and wounded \u2013 fitting to the stereotypical female role in horror film. But Lars von Trier expands upon the genre, bringing the woman and nature into direct visual relation.
\nWhat happens or could happen on the path to redemption and the dissolution of the self cannot be portrayed. Nebulous snatches of words hover throughout the dark forest. What glides across the picture in legible and illegible misty wafts are excerpts from Nietzsche\u2019s late writings. The text in dark red cites passages from Nietzsche\u2019s \u201cAntichrist,\u201d while the light red passages are from his \u201cTwilight of the Idols.\u201d The late work counts among the most popular books of the German philosopher, where his theses are summarized in a short and concise manner.
\nParticularly emphasized in the light red passages in the middle panel of the picture are the words that Nietzsche identifies as prerequisite for any sort of artistic production: the various forms of intoxication.
\nNietzsche\u2019s text ends, like the picture, with the \u201creassessment of all values\u201d \u2013 as a statement and quote. Text clouds disrupt the natural setting in blood red. In the first part of the picture, the man seems to hold the woman, while in the second and third parts they have separated themselves from order and nature \u2013 shortly before the film or image releases us into a chaos of emotion, which might well precede a new order: The reassessment of all values.<\/p>\n

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Friedrich Nietzsche\u2019s original text \u201cAntichrist\u201d (1889) \/ Friedrich Nietzsche, \u201cTwilight of the Idols.\u201d \/ Lars von Trier, \u201cAntichrist\u201d (2009) \/ The reassessment of all values<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/waldach.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/963"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/waldach.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/waldach.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/waldach.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/waldach.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/waldach.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017,"href":"http:\/\/waldach.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/963\/revisions\/1017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/waldach.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/waldach.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/waldach.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}