man-made disaster

His films systematically deconstruct how human systems—class hierarchies, corporate greed, and governmental incompetence—create catastrophic disasters that destroy individuals and societies.

His socially conscious cinema directly examines how political policies, economic systems, and institutional failures inflict systematic harm on vulnerable populations.

His documentaries and fiction films obsessively explore human ambition, hubris, and technological overreach as forces that inevitably lead to catastrophe and suffering.