THEME EXPLORATION

industrial work

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Chung Kuo Cina
Chung Kuo Cina
1972 · Michelangelo Antonioni
Three Installations
Three Installations
1952 · Lindsay Anderson
That Old Dream That Moves
That Old Dream That Moves
2001 · Alain Guiraudie
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
Black Girl
Black Girl
1966 · Ousmane Sembène
Making of the Spaceship
Making of the Spaceship
2009 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul
35 rhums
35 rhums
2008 · Claire Denis
Much Loved
Much Loved
2015 · Nabil Ayouch
The Marginal Ones
The Marginal Ones
1978 · Mrinal Sen
24 City
24 City
2008 · Jia Zhangke
Detective Conan: Fallen Angel of the Highway
Detective Conan: Fallen Angel of the Highway
2026 · Takahiro Hasui
A Woman of Rumour / The Crucified Woman
A Woman of Rumour / The Crucified Woman
1954 · Kenji Mizoguchi
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Ken Loach United Kingdom

His films consistently document the lives of working-class people navigating industrial decline and labor struggles with unflinching social realism.

 Chloé Zhao China/United States

She explores the dignity and precarity of workers in post-industrial America, examining how individuals survive within broken economic systems.

 Rainer Werner Fassbinder Germany

His films interrogate factory labor, exploitation, and working-class consciousness within capitalist systems with psychological intensity and political urgency.