stigmata

His films obsessively interrogate sacred suffering and religious martyrdom through visceral bodies and spiritual anguish, culminating in works like 'Teorema' and 'Salò'.

He transforms bodily trauma and transformation into philosophical inquiries about flesh, mutation, and the inscription of suffering onto the human form.

His provocative cinema weaponizes female suffering and religious imagery to explore how pain, guilt, and sacrifice become sites of spiritual and psychological transgression.