blurred reality and performance

His surrealist narratives dissolve boundaries between dream and waking reality, performance and authenticity, most notably in Mulholland Drive and Eraserhead.

He systematically deconstructs the performance of identity, desire, and social roles within carefully constructed theatrical spaces that expose reality as constructed.

His films interrogate the performative nature of cinema itself and blur lines between spectator complicity, mediated reality, and authentic violence through meta-cinematic techniques.