primitive aesthetics

His films obsessively document humanity's primal relationship with nature and the limits of civilization through visceral, often dangerous expeditions into remote landscapes.

He deliberately employed non-professional actors and raw, ritualistic narrative structures to excavate the mythic and instinctual dimensions of human experience beneath modernity.

His poetic visual language strips cinema to essential elements—light, movement, natural forms—to evoke transcendent, pre-rational states of being and spiritual immediacy.