Traversing the void: Nihilism & clinical depression in Antichrist.

Wess Haubrich
7 min readMay 4, 2018

Lars von Trier’s Antichrist forces the audience to reckon with the void — holding our eyes open and compelling our gaze. It also reflects the profound clinical depression of its creator…

Charlotte Gainsbourg from ANTICHRIST’s Prologue. Notice the comparison of this still with the one below from Ingmar Bergman’s HOUR OF THE WOLF (1968). Are they looks of terror or ecstasy?

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Wess Haubrich

Horror, crime, noir with a distinctly southwestern tinge. Staff writer, former contributing editor; occultist; anthropologist of symbols.