metafiction

His films like 'Adaptation' and 'Synecdoche, New York' deconstruct storytelling itself by making the creative process and the blurred line between fiction and reality central to the narrative.

Through films like 'Playtime' and 'Mon Oncle,' he creates self-aware comedies that constantly remind viewers they are watching constructed cinema while playing with the artificiality of film language.

Works like 'Mulholland Drive' and 'Inland Empire' obsessively explore the constructed nature of narrative, identity, and performance, treating cinema as a hall of mirrors where fiction and reality collapse into each other.