Cinemaul lui Lars von Trier. Un eseu despre orbir
Lars von Trier’s Cinema – an Essay on Blindness

Summary/Abstract: This paper consists in a brief analysis of four of Lars von Trier’s iconic films, from the perspective of how he constructs the relationship between the viewer and the cinematographic matter of his fictional universes. Starting with Dancer in the Dark and continuing with Breaking the Waves, Melancholia and Dogville, this paper tackles how the idea of “gaze” and “blindness” are differently approached in each of the aforementioned productions, providing the Danish director as many means to experiment on a personal and unpredictable philosophy on the act of reception. Thus, while the theme of blindness is directly addressed in the 2000 feature, the same theme returns in new forms in the other films signed by Lars von Trier, to challenge the viewer to different ways of seeing, but also to give the specificity of a nonconformist artistic vision that is reinvented with each new movie.

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