identity and amnesia

His films like Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire obsessively explore fractured identities and memory loss through surreal narratives that blur reality and delusion.

Memento, The Prestige, and Inception systematically deconstruct memory, identity, and consciousness as unreliable foundations of selfhood.

Last Year at Marienbad and Hiroshima Mon Amour pioneered the cinematic exploration of fragmented memory and how it shapes and destabilizes personal identity.