His films like Mirror and Stalker dissolve the boundaries between personal memory, history, and metaphysical inquiry through non-linear narratives and meditative visual poetry.

He reconstructs historical moments and personal pasts through fragmented impressions, voice-over reflection, and nature imagery in films like The Thin Red Line and A Hidden Life.

His essay films, particularly La Jetée, deconstruct how cinema itself preserves and reinterprets the past through montage, memory, and found footage.