THEME EXPLORATION

industrial development

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Skyscraper
Skyscraper
1959 · Shirley Clarke
Three Installations
Three Installations
1952 · Lindsay Anderson
Torino nei cent’anni
Torino nei cent’anni
1961 · Roberto Rossellini
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
2023 · Christopher Nolan
Still Life
Still Life
2006 · Jia Zhangke
A Children's Story
A Children's Story
2004 · Andrea Frazzi & Antonio Frazzi
Making of the Spaceship
Making of the Spaceship
2009 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Aquarius
Aquarius
2016 · Kleber Mendonça Filho
The World
The World
2004 · Jia Zhangke & Wang Xiaoshuai
Chinese Animation: A Century
Chinese Animation: A Century
2026 · Lijun Sun
Brise-glace
Brise-glace
1990 · Jean Rouch
Chung Kuo Cina
Chung Kuo Cina
1972 · Michelangelo Antonioni
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Charlie Chaplin United Kingdom

His masterpiece 'Modern Times' satirizes industrial automation and factory dehumanization through iconic silent comedy.

 Sergei Eisenstein Soviet Union

'October: Ten Days That Shook the World' and 'The Battleship Potemkin' celebrate industrial progress and revolutionary transformation through montage cinematography.

 Ken Loach United Kingdom

His socially conscious realist films like 'Kes' and 'I, Daniel Blake' explore the human cost of industrial decline and economic upheaval in modern society.