construction industry

His film 'The Battleship Potemkin' and especially his theoretical work explored how montage could construct meaning, while his unfinished 'Capital' project directly engaged with industrial construction and labor.

His social realist films like 'Kes' and 'I, Daniel Blake' consistently examine working-class life and the built environment, with construction and labor central to his critique of industrial society.

His documentaries and narrative films obsessively explore human construction against nature, from 'Fitzcarraldo' (building in the Amazon) to 'Aguirre, the Wrath of God,' examining civilization's architectural ambitions.