THEME EXPLORATION

historical preservation

12 films · 2 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
2009 · Shawn Levy

The Act of Killing

The Act of Killing
2012 · Joshua Oppenheimer

Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot

Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
1958 · Sergei Eisenstein

Giovanna d’Arco

Giovanna d’Arco
1989 · Werner Herzog

Fort York
1972 · David Cronenberg

Flowers & Banana Wind

Flowers & Banana Wind
2020 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Chico
2001 · Ibolya Fekete

I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians

I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
2018 · Radu Jude

Ip Man
2008 · Wilson Yip

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

DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS

Hou Hsiao-hsien Taiwan

His films meticulously reconstruct historical periods and cultural memory, treating cinema itself as an act of preservation against erasure.

Theo Angelopoulos Greece

His work examines how history shapes identity and loss, using long takes and landscape to meditate on the traces of the past in the present.