taxidermy

His surrealist filmography frequently employs taxidermied animals and preserved specimens as unsettling symbols of death, nature's violation, and the grotesque underbelly of American life.

Their darkly whimsical aesthetic in films like 'Delicatessen' and 'The City of Lost Children' incorporates taxidermy and preserved creatures to create macabre, steampunk-tinged worlds that blur life and death.