animal antagonism

His documentaries and films obsessively explore humanity's fraught relationship with nature and animals, examining primal conflicts in works like 'Grizzly Man' and 'Aguirre, the Wrath of God'.

He frequently used animal behavior as metaphor for human cruelty and survival instincts, most notably in 'La Bête' where a wild boar embodies untamable antagonism.

His body horror films explore the visceral antagonism between human consciousness and animal instinct, with animals and mutation representing primal threat in works like 'Shivers' and 'Rabid'.