VestAndPage have been devoted to experimental performance-based filmmaking to examine the evolution from original documentation of performative acts toward non-linear storytelling. They produce films from visceral performances that respond to critical environments "familiar as a dream" (London City Nights), such as Antarctic glaciers and underground cave systems, at the Himalayan foothills in Kashmir or military enclaves. They employ non-invasive equipment, working alone or with a small team. In a constant search through a reflexive mode for new images of interior landscapes, they consider the world their studio and host: they do not go to a place to tell a story but to find its story. They explore “thin places”: locations-in-between, where the veil between different temporalities, occurrences and stories is porous. To perform in these thresholds where the visible blends with the invisible, they apply a psychogeographical approach to activate memory and uncover layers of imagery stored in the human and beyond-human.

VestAndPage’s works resonate with theories of queer ecology, new materialism and embodied cognition. Working on performance art’s liminal, spectral and ritual nature, in an ongoing Poetics of Relations, they apply endurance, sublimation and risk-taking with a poetic bodily approach to art practice. They consider performance-based filmmaking an artistic practice that serves the body’s capacity to generate situated and embodied knowledge, convey meanings and shape concepts of intimate archiving. For them, film can delude space-time, open the unconscious as a resourceful vessel, and reveal processes and relations by linking apparently disconnected human and beyond-human bodies, sites and happenings.

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Their production process involves the recollection of different elements or “shards”: a series of disconnected filmed, non-staged performance actions, poetic speculative texts produced as stream-of-consciousness, foley sounds along elaborate sonic soundscapes. These shards are placed together organically in the editing process. The film work aims to reveal the existing connections between these previously scattered fragments. Reduced use of digital effects such as dissolve, reverse and layering serves to unveil perceptions of realities that are not feasible in real life but that they consider elemental. Rooted in film history and the history of performance art, VestAndPage’s aesthetic has been termed as magical realism, surrealist, hyperrealist or psychomagic. It reflects the influence of masters such as Maya Deren, Claude Cahun, Sergei Parajanov or Alejandro Jodorowsky.

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They also commit to film as a mnemonic and archive, and produce conversations and interviews on existential topics with inspiring people from the arts, culture and science.​ Since 2010, they have produced three feature-length films, a silent film, a trilogy of shorts, two shorts and numerous interview series and art videos. In 2020, they published their Manifesto on performance-based filmmaking: Poetics of Relations on the Journal of Embodied Research as a video article.