His surrealist films explore the absurdity of nature and animal behavior as metaphors for human society's hidden instincts and desires.
Werner Herzog GermanyHis documentaries and narrative films obsessively examine humanity's relationship with untamed nature and animal intelligence, often featuring nature's architects and engineers.
Agnès Varda FranceHer poetic approach to observing everyday life and nature captures the quiet industriousness and community-building instincts that parallel beaver behavior and habitat creation.