exotic settings

His films obsessively document remote and extreme landscapes—from Amazonian jungles to Antarctic wastelands—making exotic settings central to exploring human ambition and madness.

He transforms rural Thai settings into dreamlike, meditative spaces that reveal how exotic locales shape memory, spirituality, and human connection.

He pioneered grand-scale epics set in deserts and exotic colonial locales, using sweeping cinematography to make landscape itself a character in human drama.