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His surrealist exploration of sound, silence, and auditory perception—from the roaring engine in Eraserhead to the ambient dread in Mulholland Drive—treats listening itself as a disorienting psychological experience.

His meditative cinema uses long takes and sparse sound design to create spaces of profound acoustic isolation, where the absence of noise becomes as meaningful as its presence.

His documentaries and films obsessively examine human attempts to shut out or control the world's noise—from the silence of Aguirre to the acoustic challenges in Grizzly Man—revealing our complex relationship with what we choose to hear.