interspecies conflict

His documentaries obsessively examine humanity's relationship with untamed nature and animals, exploring conflict through raw confrontation as seen in Grizzly Man and Encounters at the End of the World.

He uses interspecies conflict as political allegory, most directly in Okja where corporate exploitation of a giant creature serves as commentary on human dominance and ethical boundaries.

His body horror films probe the blurred boundaries between human and animal through visceral transformation, examining biological conflict and survival as in The Fly and Videodrome.