human-animal relationship

His documentaries and films obsessively explore humanity's complex, often dangerous fascination with animals and nature, examining our need to dominate or commune with the wild.

His bleak philosophical works frequently feature animals as mirrors of human suffering and mortality, most memorably in 'Sátántangó' and 'Turin Horse' where horses embody existential despair.

Her documentaries and narrative films celebrate interspecies bonds and interdependence with poetic tenderness, revealing how animals teach humans about dignity, solitude, and connection.