jungle to civilization

His films like 'Fitzcarraldo' and 'Aguirre, the Wrath of God' obsessively document the collision between human ambition and the raw, untamable wilderness.

His contemplative works explore the boundary between nature and modernity in Southeast Asia, showing how civilization encroaches on and transforms the natural world.

Through his Westerns, he masterfully depicted the violent transformation of wild frontier spaces into the structures of civilization and law.