afterlife and mortality

His films like 'Stalker' and 'Mirror' meditate on memory, time, and spiritual transcendence as pathways to understanding existence beyond death.

'After Life' literally depicts a way station between death and the afterlife, while his other works gently explore grief, loss, and how the living carry the deceased within them.

His provocative films like 'Melancholia' and 'Antichrist' confront mortality, depression, and the dissolution of meaning in the face of cosmic or personal apocalypse.