seeing the dead

His films like 'After Life' and 'Wandering Home' poignantly explore the liminal space between the living and dead, examining memory and grief through intimate human encounters.

He masterfully blends magical realism with the supernatural to explore communication with the dead and the persistence of ghosts in works like 'Pan's Labyrinth' and 'The Shape of Water.'

His metaphysically dense films like 'Stalker' and 'The Mirror' contemplate mortality, the spiritual realm, and the traces the dead leave on the living through philosophical meditation and haunting imagery.