Tracing the thread…
His films obsessively capture the subtle beauty of seasonal shifts and the fleeting nature of family bonds across changing landscapes and light.
Hou Hsiao-hsien TaiwanHe uses seasonal imagery and temporal layering to explore how time erodes memory, relationships, and cultural identity within landscapes marked by transition.
Andrei Tarkovsky Soviet UnionHis metaphysical cinema uses seasons and natural cycles as meditation on human mortality, memory, and the impermanence of all material existence.