stigmata

His films obsessively explore religious suffering, bodily violation, and the sacred profane through visceral imagery that treats stigmata as both spiritual and physical trauma.

He examines bodily transformation and transcendence through body horror, creating a cinema where physical stigmata becomes a gateway to altered consciousness and spiritual states.

His work interrogates suffering, redemption, and religious guilt through damaged protagonists whose bodies and psyches bear the marks of spiritual and existential wounds.