Genius, provocateur, madman: Abel Ferrera has donned many hats throughout his nearly five-decade career, yet never has he produced such consistent and introspective work than within his recent tenure with four-time Academy Award-nominated actor and chameleon Willem Dafoe. Though this Ferrera-Dafoe renaissance has only prevailed within the past decade, yet these two auteurs have been collaborating since before the turn of the millennium.