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THEME EXPLORATION

performance and constructed reality

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
The Matrix
The Matrix
1999 · Lana Wachowski & Lilly Wachowski
Stray Kids: The dominATE Experience
Stray Kids: The dominATE Experience
2026 · Paul Dugdale
Another Telepathic Thing
Another Telepathic Thing
2015 · Jonathan Demme
Out One: Spectre
Out One: Spectre
1972 · Jacques Rivette
Avalon
Avalon
2001 · Mamoru Oshii
Adele: Live in New York City 2015
Adele: Live in New York City 2015
2015 · Beth McCarthy-Miller
Buddy’s Beer Garden
Buddy’s Beer Garden
1933 · Frank Tashlin
Immersion
Immersion
2023 · Takashi Shimizu
Over Your Dead Body
Over Your Dead Body
2014 · Takashi Miike
Man on Wire
Man on Wire
2008 · James Marsh
The Act of Killing
The Act of Killing
2012 · Joshua Oppenheimer
Primary Colors
Primary Colors
1998 · Mike Nichols
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Federico Fellini → Italy

His films blur the boundary between reality and theatrical performance, with characters constantly performing identities within elaborate, dreamlike constructed worlds.

David Fincher → United States

He meticulously constructs hyperreal cinematic spaces where characters manipulate perception and reality becomes indistinguishable from performance and social performance.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder → Germany

His work deliberately exposes cinema as artifice while exploring how individuals perform social roles within constructed systems of power and desire.

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