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THEME EXPLORATION

industrial infrastructure

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Three Installations
Three Installations
1952 · Lindsay Anderson
5 Postcards from Capital Cities
5 Postcards from Capital Cities
1967 · Peter Greenaway
Kino-Pravda No. 7
Kino-Pravda No. 7
1922 · Dziga Vertov
Still Life
Still Life
2006 · Jia Zhangke
Making of the Spaceship
Making of the Spaceship
2009 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Broads
Broads
1989 · Christian Petzold
Bridges-Go-Round 2
Bridges-Go-Round 2
1958 · Shirley Clarke
Brise-glace
Brise-glace
1990 · Jean Rouch
Cheers in the Palm!
Cheers in the Palm!
1969 · Nobuhiko Obayashi
Chung Kuo Cina
Chung Kuo Cina
1972 · Michelangelo Antonioni
Concrete Grandma
Concrete Grandma
1986 · Mai Zetterling
El arte del tabaco
El arte del tabaco
1974 · Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Werner Herzog → Germany

His documentaries obsessively explore humanity's relationship with massive industrial projects and their environmental consequences, from dams to mines.

Sergei Eisenstein → Soviet Union

He pioneered cinematically depicting industrial labor and infrastructure as subjects of revolutionary grandeur, most notably in films like *The Battleship Potemkin* and *October*.

Chloé Zhao → China/USA

Her films examine the human cost of industrial decline and modern infrastructure economies, portraying landscapes of factories, highways, and resource extraction with poetic intimacy.

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