THEME EXPLORATION

industrial materials

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Three Installations
Three Installations
1952 · Lindsay Anderson
Making of the Spaceship
Making of the Spaceship
2009 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul
24 City
24 City
2008 · Jia Zhangke
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
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
Le Train en marche
Le Train en marche
1971 · Chris Marker
Nogent, Eldorado du dimanche
Nogent, Eldorado du dimanche
1929 · Marcel Carné
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Rainer Werner Fassbinder Germany

His films obsessively explore the textures and oppressive weight of modernist architecture and industrial spaces as metaphors for social alienation and power structures.

 Andrei Tarkovsky Soviet Union

He uses decaying industrial landscapes, metal, concrete, and machinery as spiritual and philosophical meditations on human existence and technological alienation.

 Béla Tarr Hungary

His films transform industrial detritus, rust, steel mills, and bleak urban environments into poetic explorations of human struggle and societal collapse.