apartment siege

His films like 'Repulsion' and 'The Tenant' claustrophobically trap characters within apartment spaces where psychological terror and paranoia consume them.

His visceral filmmaking in works like 'Irréversible' uses confined apartment settings to intensify intimate violence and temporal disorientation.

Though known for open spaces, her documentary approach in 'Songs Without Names' captures the siege of oppression within domestic spaces under authoritarian control.