Tracing the thread…
His documentary and narrative films obsessively explore human ambition against impossible geological and infrastructural challenges, epitomized in works examining tunnels and mountain passages.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder GermanyHis films dissect the claustrophobic social structures and psychological tunnels of modern existence, using industrial and architectural spaces as metaphors for entrapment.
Béla Tarr HungaryHis monumental, slow-cinema works create labyrinthine visual and narrative structures that function like psychological and physical tunnels, exploring entropy and industrial decay.