tribal society

His documentaries like 'Aguirre, the Wrath of God' and 'Fitzcarraldo' obsessively examine the collision between civilization and indigenous tribal worlds.

His ethnographic films and 'Teorema' deconstruct tribal and pre-modern social structures through provocative anthropological cinema.

His works like 'Birdman' and 'The Revenant' explore primal human hierarchies and tribal codes of honor within both indigenous and modern contexts.