Grace of Destruction

For Elena del Río, extreme cinema is not only qualitatively different from the representations of violence we encounter in popular, mainstream cinema; it also constitutes a critique of the socio-moral system that produces (in every sense of the word) such violence. Drawing inspiration from Deleuze''s ethics of immanence, Spinoza''s ethology of passions and Nietzsche''s typology of forces, The Grac...