animal exile

His films like 'Grizzly Man' and 'My Son, My Son, What Have You Done' obsessively explore human-animal relationships and the tragedy of creatures displaced from their natural worlds.

His surreal works such as 'The Killing of a Sacred Deer' and 'Poor Things' depict animals and humans in unsettling exile from normalcy, blurring boundaries between species and society.

Her film 'Beau travail' and especially 'High Life' use animal imagery and isolation to examine displacement, confinement, and the psychological exile of beings removed from their environments.