THEME EXPLORATION

concrete landscape

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Zone Moment
Zone Moment
1956 · Stan Brakhage
Drei Wege zum See
Drei Wege zum See
1976 · Michael Haneke
Memoria, Boy at Sea
Memoria, Boy at Sea
2017 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Don Valley
Don Valley
1972 · David Cronenberg
A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things
A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things
2024 · Mark Cousins
Journey on the Plain
Journey on the Plain
1995 · Béla Tarr
A Friendly Handshake
A Friendly Handshake
1997 · Jean Rouch
Birth of Light
Birth of Light
1997 · Abbas Kiarostami
Bridges-Go-Round 2
Bridges-Go-Round 2
1958 · Shirley Clarke
From the theme of Mahoroba "Doi Koinouta"
From the theme of Mahoroba "Doi Koinouta"
2001 · Nobuhiko Obayashi
La Funivia del Faloria
La Funivia del Faloria
1950 · Michelangelo Antonioni
Paris s’en va
Paris s’en va
1981 · Jacques Rivette
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Michelangelo Antonioni Italy

His films obsessively capture the alienation and emotional emptiness of modernist architecture and urban sprawl, making concrete environments central to psychological landscapes.

 Wim Wenders Germany

He documents post-war urban decay and industrial concrete architecture as physical manifestations of memory, loss, and cultural fragmentation across divided Europe.

 Béla Tarr Hungary

His films transform decaying concrete industrial sites and bleak urban spaces into apocalyptic, almost mythological worlds that explore human existence in desolate modernity.