human commodification

His films expose how capitalism reduces workers and vulnerable people to disposable economic units, particularly in *I, Daniel Blake* and *Sorry We Missed You*.

He examines dehumanization and bodily commodification through surreal, dystopian narratives where people are systematized and stripped of agency in films like *The Killing of a Sacred Deer*.

Her work interrogates exploitation, colonialism, and the commodification of bodies—especially Black bodies and female labor—in visceral, poetic ways through films like *Trouble Every Day* and *High Life*.