identity and selfhood

Polley excavates personal and collective memory through formally inventive, emotionally unflinching hybrid narratives.

His films like 'Black Swan' and 'The Wrestler' obsessively explore fractured identities, psychological dissolution, and the struggle between authentic and performed selves.

Through surreal narratives in works like 'Mulholland Drive' and 'Eraserhead', Lynch deconstructs the boundaries between reality and illusion, fragmenting notions of unified identity.