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THEME EXPLORATION

automobile absurdism

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Divine Intervention
Divine Intervention
2002 · Elia Suleiman
A Billionaire
A Billionaire
1954 · Kon Ichikawa
Sitcom
Sitcom
1998 · François Ozon
Giraffe Football or “The Alternative”
Giraffe Football or “The Alternative”
1973 · Jean Rouch
The Dumb Waiter
The Dumb Waiter
1985 · Robert Altman
Trafic
Trafic
1971 · Jacques Tati
Una confusión cotidiana
Una confusión cotidiana
1950 · Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Catch-22
Catch-22
1970 · Mike Nichols
Kustom Kar Kommandos
Kustom Kar Kommandos
1965 · Kenneth Anger
Labyrinth Tale
Labyrinth Tale
1975 · Shuji Terayama
Overstimulated
Overstimulated
1963 · Jack Smith
Watashi-wa beretto
Watashi-wa beretto
1964 · Nagisa Oshima
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
David Lynch → United States

His films, particularly Eraserhead and Inland Empire, present cars and roads as surreal, nightmarish spaces where logic dissolves into absurdist dread.

Jean-Luc Godard → France

Weekend features one of cinema's most iconic absurdist sequences: a traffic jam that becomes a hallucinatory landscape of violence and societal collapse.

Béla Tarr → Hungary

Sátántangó and Werckmeister Harmonies treat automobiles as symbols of human futility within vast, mechanized worlds governed by incomprehensible forces.

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