looping structures

His films frequently employ temporal loops and non-linear narratives to explore cyclical patterns of fate and causality, most notably in Memento, Inception, and Tenet.

His work obsessively returns to circular storytelling and recursive narratives, particularly in Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive, where past events perpetually echo into the present.

He constructs films as literal and thematic loops, reversing chronologies and repeating sequences to examine cyclical trauma and the inescapability of patterns, especially in Irréversible and Enter the Void.