THEME EXPLORATION

artifact preservation

12 films · 2 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
2014 · Shawn Levy
Flowers & Banana Wind
Flowers & Banana Wind
2020 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Ip Man
Ip Man
2008 · Wilson Yip
Fort York
Fort York
1972 · David Cronenberg
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
2007 · Jon Turteltaub
Once Upon a Time, Cinema
Once Upon a Time, Cinema
1992 · Mohsen Makhmalbaf
The Last Samurai
The Last Samurai
2003 · Edward Zwick
The Mummy Returns
The Mummy Returns
2001 · Stephen Sommers
Chinese Animation: A Century
Chinese Animation: A Century
2026 · Lijun Sun
Kokuho
Kokuho
2025 · Sang-il Lee
A Castle Within a Castle
A Castle Within a Castle
1954 · Carl Theodor Dreyer
Announcement
Announcement
1997 · Jean Rouch
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Agnès Varda France

Her films obsessively document everyday objects, spaces, and memories as fleeting artifacts of human existence, treating cinema itself as preservation.

 Andrei Tarkovsky Soviet Union

He uses long takes and materiality to preserve moments in time, viewing cinema as a spiritual act of rescuing human experience from oblivion.