strobing light

His films use strobing light and fractured editing to create disorientation and psychological tension, particularly in crime thrillers like Collateral and Heat.

He employs intense strobing, flashing lights, and rapid cuts as a core visual and narrative technique, most famously in Irréversible and Enter the Void to induce visceral viewer experience.

His neon-soaked films like Drive and Only God Forgives use strobing and pulsating light as both aesthetic and thematic devices to explore violence and altered consciousness.