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THEME EXPLORATION

industrial disruption

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Three Installations
Three Installations
1952 · Lindsay Anderson
My Heart Belongs to Daddy
My Heart Belongs to Daddy
1942 · Robert Siodmak
24 City
24 City
2008 · Jia Zhangke
Making of the Spaceship
Making of the Spaceship
2009 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Brise-glace
Brise-glace
1990 · Jean Rouch
Bridges-Go-Round 2
Bridges-Go-Round 2
1958 · Shirley Clarke
Chung Kuo Cina
Chung Kuo Cina
1972 · Michelangelo Antonioni
Cheers in the Palm!
Cheers in the Palm!
1969 · Nobuhiko Obayashi
Fellow Citizen
Fellow Citizen
1983 · Abbas Kiarostami
El arte del tabaco
El arte del tabaco
1974 · Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Fountainhead
Fountainhead
1956 · Masaki Kobayashi
Il caso Mattei
Il caso Mattei
1972 · Francesco Rosi
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Charlie Chaplin → United Kingdom

His masterpiece 'Modern Times' satirizes industrial mechanization and its dehumanizing effects on workers through unforgettable comedy.

Ken Loach → United Kingdom

His socially conscious films consistently document the human cost of industrial decline and economic disruption on working-class communities.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder → Germany

His films explore how industrial capitalism and technological change fragment society and individual identity in post-war Europe.

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