human locomotion

Her films obsessively document characters in physical motion through landscapes, from nomadic van-dwellers in 'Nomadland' to horseback journeys in 'The Rider,' making mobility itself a metaphor for survival and identity.

He repeatedly filmed people walking, driving, and traversing through space—particularly in 'A Taste of Cherry' and his 'Ten' series—using movement as a philosophical inquiry into human existence and moral choice.

His entire oeuvre celebrates walking, driving, and wandering as central to human experience, from the literal road journeys in 'Paris, Texas' to the philosophical rambling in 'Wings of Desire,' treating locomotion as a spiritual act.