Death Valley

Herzog's documentaries and films obsessively explore human mortality, landscape as existential force, and death in extreme environments, particularly in *Aguirre, the Wrath of God* and *Grizzly Man*.

Antonioni's films examine emotional and spiritual desolation through barren landscapes and the slow dissolution of human connection, culminating in *The Red Desert* and *Zabriskie Point*.

Tarkovsky's meditative cinema confronts mortality, emptiness, and spiritual death through vast, lifeless landscapes in films like *Stalker* and *The Mirror*.