Tracing the thread…
His documentaries and films obsessively explore humanity's confrontation with vast, indifferent natural forces and isolated landscapes, often using ice and extreme environments as metaphors for existential struggle.
Agnès Varda FranceHer work frequently employs the iceberg as a visual and thematic metaphor—examining what lies hidden beneath surfaces, both in memory and human relationships, with poetic introspection.
Andrei Tarkovsky Soviet Union/RussiaHis films use frozen, desolate landscapes and the concept of hidden depths to explore spiritual and psychological mysteries, treating cinema itself as an iceberg where meaning lies mostly submerged.