THEME EXPLORATION

Revolutionary iconography

12 films · 2 directors

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FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Cuban Fight Against Demons
Cuban Fight Against Demons
1972 · Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Der Leone Have Sept Cabeças
Der Leone Have Sept Cabeças
1970 · Glauber Rocha
Land and Freedom
Land and Freedom
1995 · Ken Loach
Le Fond de l’air est rouge
Le Fond de l’air est rouge
1977 · Chris Marker
October (Ten Days that Shook the World)
October (Ten Days that Shook the World)
1928 · Sergei Eisenstein
The Assassination of Trotsky
The Assassination of Trotsky
1972 · Joseph Losey
Vincent the Dutchman
Vincent the Dutchman
1972 · Mai Zetterling
We Were Strangers *
We Were Strangers *
1949 · John Huston
Che: Part Two
Che: Part Two
2008 · Steven Soderbergh
The Missing Nail
The Missing Nail
2019 · Peter Greenaway
Drunken Master III
Drunken Master III
1994 · Kar-leung Lau
First May in Moscow
First May in Moscow
1923 · Dziga Vertov
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Sergei Eisenstein Soviet Union

His revolutionary montage technique and films like Battleship Potemkin and October directly celebrate Soviet revolutionary iconography and ideology.

 Agnès Varda France

Her documentary and narrative work repeatedly interrogates revolutionary symbols, political activism, and the aesthetics of resistance movements.