obsessive documentation

His films obsessively document violence, surveillance, and the act of watching itself, particularly in *Funny Games* and *Code Unknown*.

She compulsively documented her own life and society through cinema, creating a personal archive that interrogates memory and time in works like *The Beaches of Agnès*.

Her films obsessively document the margins of contemporary America through long takes and observational realism, treating everyday life as material worthy of meticulous preservation.