dionysian rituals

His films like 'Salò' and 'Teorema' explore transgressive rituals, bodily excess, and the collapse of social order through deliberately provocative, ecstatic imagery.

His documentaries and fiction films obsessively examine ecstatic states, primordial rituals, and humanity's irrational surrender to nature and obsession in works like 'Aguirre' and 'Fitzcarraldo'.