near-death experiences

His metaphysical films like 'Stalker' and 'Mirror' contemplate mortality, spiritual transcendence, and the threshold between life and death through meditative visual poetry.

His films 'The Revenant' and 'Birdman' intensely explore survival, mortality, and the fragile boundary between living and dying through visceral storytelling.

His provocative works like 'Melancholia' and 'Antichrist' confront death, despair, and human consciousness at the edge of annihilation with unflinching psychological depth.