water as harbinger

Water permeates his films as a spiritual and temporal force that reveals truth and transformation, most notably in Stalker and Mirror where it symbolizes memory, death, and transcendence.

His films use water as a marker of life's transitions and emotional currents, from flowing rivers representing time's passage to rain embodying grief and renewal in works like After the Storm.

She employs water as a harbinger of violence, desire, and colonial rupture, using it to foreshadow psychological and physical devastation in films like Trouble Every Day and Beau Travail.