identity and performance

Epic visual storytelling that interweaves personal tragedy with China's turbulent political history.

His films dissect how identity is constructed through social roles, desire, and performance within oppressive systems, particularly in *The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant* and *Ali: Fear Eats the Soul*.

He explores fractured identities and the masks people wear in *Mulholland Drive* and *Inland Empire*, examining how performance and reality collapse into surreal psychological spaces.