His films obsessively revisit and refine similar themes, visual motifs, and narrative structures across multiple works, exploring how meaning shifts through repetition.
Michael Haneke AustriaHe deliberately repeats scenes, shots, and scenarios within and across films to interrogate viewer complicity, memory, and the desensitizing effects of repetitive exposure.
Andy Warhol United StatesHis films embrace extreme repetition—static shots, repeated actions, and serialized imagery—to deconstruct cinema itself and challenge notions of originality and time.