fragmented identity

His surrealist narratives systematically deconstruct unified selfhood through non-linear storytelling and psychological fragmentation, most prominently in Mulholland Drive and Eraserhead.

He explores fragmented identity through interconnected narratives and protagonist disintegration, examining how trauma and perception splinter the self in films like Birdman and The Revenant.

Her documentary and experimental approach dismantles linear identity construction by exploring memory, time, and the multiplicity of selves in works like Vagabond and The Gleaners and I.