THEME EXPLORATION

transcendence and embodiment

6 films · 2 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Wings of Desire
Wings of Desire
1987 · Wim Wenders
Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Dark Side of Dimensions
Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Dark Side of Dimensions
2026 · Satoshi Kuwabara
Sleep Song
Sleep Song
2022 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul
La Petite marchande d’allumettes
La Petite marchande d’allumettes
1928 · Jean Renoir
The Fountain
The Fountain
2006 · Darren Aronofsky
Le Rêve plus fort que la mort
Le Rêve plus fort que la mort
2002 · Jean Rouch
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Andrei Tarkovsky Soviet Union

His films explore spiritual transcendence through materiality, using long takes and physical landscapes to reveal metaphysical yearning within embodied existence.

 Carl Theodor Dreyer Denmark

His work transfigures human faces and bodies into vessels of divine grace, particularly in films like Passion of Joan of Arc, where embodied suffering becomes transcendent revelation.