sacred vs profane

His films like 'The Gospel According to St. Matthew' and 'Salò' explicitly juxtapose religious transcendence with bodily degradation and profane violence.

His masterpieces 'Vampyr' and 'Gertrud' explore the tension between spiritual yearning and earthly desire through haunting visual metaphors.

His contemplative cinema, particularly 'Andrei Rublev' and 'Stalker,' meditates on the intersection of faith, artistic creation, and the material world.