THEME EXPLORATION

industrial production

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS

El arte del tabaco

El arte del tabaco
1974 · Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Le Train en marche

Le Train en marche
1971 · Chris Marker

Le palmier à l'huile

Le palmier à l'huile
1963 · Jean Rouch

Three Installations

Three Installations
1952 · Lindsay Anderson

Work Party (also Factory Family ) (, 35mm, b&w, sound, 7 minutes

Work Party (also Factory Family ) (, 35mm, b&w, sound, 7 minutes
1942 · Len Lye

L’école des femmes

L’école des femmes
1940 · Max Ophuls

The Aviator
2004 · Martin Scorsese

The Slump Is Over

The Slump Is Over
1934 · Robert Siodmak

Making of the Spaceship

Making of the Spaceship
2009 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul

24 City
2008 · Jia Zhangke

Twin Peaks: The Return

Twin Peaks: The Return
2017 · David Lynch

And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself

And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself
2003 · Bruce Beresford

DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS

Charlie Chaplin United Kingdom

His masterpiece 'Modern Times' (1936) satirizes industrial assembly lines and the dehumanizing effects of factory mechanization.

Walter Lang Germany

His sci-fi epic 'Metropolis' (1927) depicts a dystopian industrial megacity and explores the conflict between workers and factory owners.

Ken Loach United Kingdom

His socially conscious films like 'Kes' and 'The Navigators' examine the lives of working-class people within industrial economies and their decline.