Tracing the thread…
His films explore spiritual and temporal cycles through repetition of imagery and philosophical meditation on human return to origins and memory.
Yasujirō Ozu JapanMaster of cyclical narrative structure showing families returning to familiar spaces and seasons, emphasizing life's eternal patterns and generational recurrence.
David Lynch United StatesHis work obsessively revisits trauma, locations, and narrative loops that trap characters in psychological cycles of repetition and return.