جماليات
Volume 12, Numéro 1, Pages 367-379
2025-12-18
The Lighthouse And Monochromatic Isolation: Aesthetic Confinement Through Sartre’s Existential Gaze
Authors : Naoumi Mohammed .
Abstract
Abstract: This study examines how Robert Eggers’s The Lighthouse (2019) resorts to black and white palette, restrictive framing, and light effects to portray issues of human existence. Relying on Jean Paul Sartre’s concept of existential gaze and aesthetic analysis, the paper demonstrates how Eggers’s film could capture the way gaze exchange is not only apt to exhibit power dynamics in human dialogues, but also to externalise the way an individual lives in isolation and reaches self-consciousness and definition through others’ looks and observation. This extends to modern life experiences of being isolated and observed in digital platforms.
Keywords
monochromatic aesthetic ; isolation ; existential gaze ; identity ; confinement ; digital connectivity
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