Tracing the thread…
His films like Stalker and Mirror use desolate, overgrown landscapes as meditative spaces where nature reclaims human civilization.
Werner Herzog GermanyHe obsessively films remote, untamed wilderness and abandoned places to explore humanity's struggle against indifferent, sublime nature.
Chloé Zhao China/USAHer films Nomadland and The Eternals capture vast, empty American landscapes and the isolation of abandoned spaces with poetic realism.