THEME EXPLORATION

floral imagery

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
The Birds of Paradise
The Birds of Paradise
1999 · Stan Brakhage
Filmstudie
Filmstudie
1926 · Hans Richter
Blue Propeller
Blue Propeller
2013 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul
“Dante’s Inferno”
“Dante’s Inferno”
1967 · Ken Russell
Garden of Luxor
Garden of Luxor
1973 · Derek Jarman
School in the Crosshairs
School in the Crosshairs
1981 · Nobuhiko Obayashi
Sentimental Romance
Sentimental Romance
1931 · Sergei Eisenstein
A TV Dante
A TV Dante
1990 · Peter Greenaway
My New Picture
My New Picture
2007 · Bertrand Bonello
6-18-67
6-18-67
1967 · George Lucas
Bugs Bonnets
Bugs Bonnets
1956 · Chuck Jones
Hurlements en faveur de Sade
Hurlements en faveur de Sade
1952 · Guy Debord
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Pier Paolo Pasolini Italy

His films are saturated with symbolic floral imagery and natural beauty as expressions of sensuality, desire, and spiritual transcendence.

 Wong Kar-wai Hong Kong

He uses flowers as recurring visual metaphors for fleeting beauty, lost love, and the passage of time in his visually lush cinematography.

 Andrei Tarkovsky Soviet Union

His contemplative films employ floral and botanical imagery as symbols of nature's mystery, memory, and the ineffable spiritual dimensions of human existence.