Director of 'Ashes of Time' (1994), who uses visual decay, faded colors, and poetic nihilism to explore themes of lost time and deteriorating memories.
Michelangelo Antonioni ItalyMaster of existential cinema who captures human disconnection and the erosion of meaning through sparse landscapes and temporal ambiguity in films like 'L'Avventura'.
Andrei Tarkovsky Soviet UnionFilmmaker obsessed with time's passage, memory, and spiritual emptiness, using long takes and philosophical meditation to depict consciousness dissolving like ashes in works such as 'Stalker'.