Tracing the thread…
His films meditate on memory, spirituality, and the erosion of cultural and spiritual heritage through time and modernization.
Theo Angelopoulos GreeceHe obsessively explored lost Balkan histories, displaced peoples, and the ghosts of vanished civilizations in his long-take poetic cinema.
Béla Tarr HungaryHis bleak, hypnotic works document the decay of post-communist Eastern European culture and the collapse of collective memory and tradition.