waste and consumption

His documentaries obsessively examine humanity's compulsive drive to conquer and consume nature, revealing the wasteful ambitions underlying industrial civilization.

Her films, particularly 'The Gleaners and I', celebrate those who salvage discarded objects and food, transforming waste into art and meaning while critiquing consumer culture.

His meditative cinema uses empty urban spaces and decaying architecture to confront the spiritual emptiness and material excess of contemporary consumer societies.