His films like 'Possession' explore psychological disintegration and contamination through surreal, body-horror imagery that metaphorically captures radiation's invisible destructive power.

Directly engaged with atomic anxiety in 'No End' and his documentaries about industrial Poland, examining how radiation and nuclear risk permeate everyday life and consciousness.

His masterwork 'Come and See' presents war's apocalyptic devastation in ways that parallel nuclear annihilation, while his later work addressed Chernobyl's catastrophic aftermath on human dignity.