Filmmakers and spectators started to realize that cameras could show us aspects of our existence often invisible to the naked eye. Some directors continually try to push the boundaries of what can be filmed by addressing concepts such as nature, divinity, and death in their films. These subjects once were the primary concern of writers, painters, and philosophers of Romanticism.
The Romantic movement mostly had an impact in Europe towards the end of the 18th century, especially in Germany, but not exclusively. Romanticism gave rise to an avalanche of influential philosophers such as Schelling and Herder, poets such as Goethe and Lord Byron, and painters such as Delacroix and Caspar David Friedrich, to name a few. All of them have a common interest in the relation between man and nature, a relation that has deteriorated, resulting in a separation between mankind and Absolute.
