In Utero tour

His visceral exploration of female suffering, bodily vulnerability, and maternal trauma in films like 'Antichthone' and 'Dancer in the Dark' directly confronts themes of gestation, birth, and the female body's relationship to pain.

His body horror aesthetic and films like 'Videodrome' and 'The Fly' obsessively examine transformation, mutation, and the grotesque interior processes of the human body as a site of radical change.

His avant-garde approach in films like 'Irréversible' uses shocking imagery and reverse chronology to explore conception, fetal development, and the cyclical nature of life and death with unflinching intensity.