The Contemporary Cinema and Esthetic Regime of Art: A Reading of the Antichrist by Lars von Trier under the Axiomatic Judgment

Abstract

This paper aims to perform a reading of Lars von Trier’s film — Antichrist — by the conceptual bias proposed by Jacques Rancière in his book Le partage du sensible: esthétique et politique. This film would combine the elements required to constitute an esthetic regime of art, which allows, within this context, the establishment of an axiomatic sense in the material analysis, as predicated Alain Badiou in his Handbook of Inaesthetics.