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His film 'Senso' features pivotal scenes set in Venice with elaborate transportation infrastructure, and he obsessively documented Italian landscapes and mechanical systems as metaphors for social movement.

His meditative approach to cinema frequently incorporates industrial landscapes and mechanical journeys as spiritual voyages, exploring how transportation systems reveal human consciousness and time.

Known for filming in decaying industrial Hungarian towns with emphasis on infrastructure and movement through space, his long-take aesthetic captures the poetry of mechanical systems and urban decay.