obsession with death

Bergman obsessively explored mortality, the void, and existential dread across his entire career, most memorably in 'The Seventh Seal' where a knight plays chess with Death itself.

Lynch weaves death, decay, and the dark underbelly of existence throughout his dreamlike narratives, treating mortality as an omnipresent, surreal force in films like 'Eraserhead' and 'Mulholland Drive'.

Tarkovsky's philosophical, meditative cinema perpetually contemplates mortality, time, and spiritual transcendence, creating a profound meditation on death's inevitability and meaning in works like 'Stalker' and 'Mirror'.