Films like Jean - Luc Godard's Breathless, Agnes Varda's Cléo from 5 to 7, and Alain Resnais» Last Year at Marienbad frequently
employ filmic
techniques that place the viewer in a heady, alienated state of mind; think of the discontinuity
editing employed in Breathless, the gritty cinema vérité style of Cléo, or the trance - inducing tracking shots in Marienbad.
Over the past twenty years, she has
employed a diverse array of
techniques and vocabularies, ranging from the cheerily clumsy figuration of folk painting to imitations of digital image
editing (an interest that has also extended to the incorporation of digitally printed wallpaper and conversational text elements into her canvases).