waste and consumption

His documentaries obsessively examine human ambition and excess, from Fitzcarraldo's destructive megalomania to Grizzly Man's fatal consumption of nature.

She directly critiques consumer culture and waste in films like The Gleaners and I, celebrating those who reclaim discarded objects and food from society's refuse.

His slow cinema reveals the suffocating accumulation of objects and urban detritus in modern life, where consumption becomes a form of spiritual emptiness.