THEME EXPLORATION

estate preservation

12 films · 2 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Flowers & Banana Wind
Flowers & Banana Wind
2020 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Ip Man
Ip Man
2008 · Wilson Yip
Fort York
Fort York
1972 · David Cronenberg
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
2009 · Shawn Levy
Once Upon a Time, Cinema
Once Upon a Time, Cinema
1992 · Mohsen Makhmalbaf
The Last Samurai
The Last Samurai
2003 · Edward Zwick
Chinese Animation: A Century
Chinese Animation: A Century
2026 · Lijun Sun
Kokuho
Kokuho
2025 · Sang-il Lee
Summer Hours
Summer Hours
2008 · Olivier Assayas
A Castle Within a Castle
A Castle Within a Castle
1954 · Carl Theodor Dreyer
Announcement
Announcement
1997 · Jean Rouch
La Belle noiseuse
La Belle noiseuse
1991 · Jacques Rivette
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Joanna Hogg United Kingdom

Her films, particularly the Souvenir series, obsessively explore the preservation of memory, inherited spaces, and the material traces of personal and artistic legacies.

 Chloé Zhao China/United States

Nomadland and The Eternal Memory document the human struggle to preserve dignity, relationships, and home in a world of displacement and dissolution.