Tracing the thread…
Used grand, decaying architecture and surreal spaces as metaphors for human consciousness, memory, and the collapse of social institutions.
Andrei Tarkovsky Soviet UnionEmployed stark, modernist and crumbling structures as symbols of spiritual emptiness, time's passage, and humanity's search for transcendence.
Wong Kar-wai Hong KongTransformed cramped urban apartments and neon-lit corridors into visual representations of isolation, desire, and the fragmentation of contemporary existence.