THEME EXPLORATION

Human Instrumentality

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Mil cretins
Mil cretins
2011 · Ventura Pons
Sheep in the Box
Sheep in the Box
2026 · Hirokazu Kore-eda
Rashomon
Rashomon
1950 · Akira Kurosawa
Solaris
Solaris
1972 · Andrei Tarkovsky
Babel
Babel
2006 · Alejandro González Iñárritu
Diary of a Country Priest
Diary of a Country Priest
1951 · Robert Bresson
The Gleaners and I
The Gleaners and I
2000 · Agnès Varda
Wild Strawberries
Wild Strawberries
1957 · Ingmar Bergman
A Trip to the Moon
A Trip to the Moon
1902 · Georges Méliès
The Matrix
The Matrix
1999 · Lana Wachowski & Lilly Wachowski
Man on Wire
Man on Wire
2008 · James Marsh
Umberto D.
Umberto D.
1952 · Vittorio De Sica
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Hideaki Anno Japan

Deconstructs anime conventions through introspective psychological exploration and experimental narrative fragmentation.

 David Cronenberg Canada

His body horror films explore how technology and biology merge to instrumentalize and transform the human body into a tool or weapon.

 Stanley Kubrick United States

His films examine how systems—military, governmental, technological—reduce individuals to cogs and instruments serving larger ideological or bureaucratic machines.