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Darren Aronofsky

6 titles · american genre

Obsession filmed as bodily punishment. Aronofsky puts people through physical and psychic destruction in pursuit of perfection or transcendence, with the form escalating alongside the protagonist's deterioration.

Signature

  • Hip-hop montage and snorricam rigs binding camera to body.
  • Addiction, discipline and self-destruction.
  • Escalating formal intensity mirroring collapse.
  • Religious and mythic framing of secular ruin.

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