I think that films or indeed any art work should be made in a way that they are infinitely viewable; so that you could go back to it time and time again, not necessarily immediately but over a space of time, and see new things in it, or new ways of looking at it.

In 1989 he collaborated with artist Tom Phillips on a television serial A TV Dante dramatising the first few cantos of Dante's Inferno. Later there were releases of two shorter features which rework the material of the first three films. He also contributed to Visions of Europe a short film collection by different European Union directors; his British entry is The European Showerbath.

Common traits in his film are the scenic composition and illumination and the contrasts of costume and nudity nature and architecture furniture and people sexual pleasure and painful death. His films are noted for the distinct influence of Renaissance and Baroque painting and Flemish painting in particular.