self-experimentation

Her autobiographical films like 'The Beaches of Agnès' and 'Vagabond' use cinema as a tool for self-exploration and documenting lived experience.

His experimental films pioneered self-reflexive cinema that investigates perception, memory, and the subjective nature of vision itself.

His intimate, slow cinema explores the filmmaker's relationship with his subjects and environment, making the act of observation and self-implication central to the work.